Shooting during Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church

A gunman fired more than 100 rifle rounds through the stained-glass windows of Annunciation Catholic Church during an all-school Mass. Two children, Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, were killed. Minneapolis police later said 21 others were wounded by gunfire, most of them children. The shooter died at the scene.

The FBI investigated the attack as domestic terrorism and an anti-Catholic hate crime. It was the deadliest assault on a U.S. Catholic congregation in 2025.