Thursday, AUGUST 28, 2025 |
Flags are flying at half-staff in Wyoming and across the nation today in the wake of the fatal shootings Wednesday that left two children at a Minneapolis Catholic school dead and 17 others wounded.
The victims were attending a mass at the Annunciation Catholic School. The 23-year-old shooter, a man who believed he was a woman, took his own life after spraying the church with bullets just before 8:30 a.m.
In accordance with a proclamation by the President of the United States, Governor Mark Gordon ordered both the United States and Wyoming flags to fly at half-staff immediately as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on August 27, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset on Sunday, August 31, 2025.
In the proclamation from the White House, President Trump described the attack on the church during mass “senseless.” He ordered the American flag be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels until August 31st, Sunday.
From outside the church on Wednesday morning, the killer shot through windows, striking children as they sat in pews at church during the first week of school.
The children who died in the church pews were 8 and 10 years old. Fourteen other kids and three elderly parishioners were wounded but are expected to survive, the chief said.
The apparent leftist gunman targeted and planned the attack which occurred on the third day of classes at the Catholic school. In all, 17 kids were shot in the massacre during the first mass of the school year. Two of the children were reportedly in critical condition with gunshot wounds to their heads.
Flags are to be flown at half-mast for the two fatally killed children through Sunday evening.
