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At least two children, ages 8 and 10, are dead and another 17 are injured after an unidentified gunman opened fire during mass on the first week of classes at a Minneapolis Catholic school, according to the Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara.

O'Hara confirmed the gunman was in his early 20s and appeared to be acting alone before taking his own life behind the church holding mass. The shooter was armed with a shotgun, a rifle and a pistol.

"There are no words that can capture the horror and the evil of this unspeakable act. Children are dead. There are families that have a deceased child," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said. "You cannot put into words the gravity, the tragedy or the absolute pain of this situation."

Fourteen of the 17 injured were children, according to O'Hara.

Four of the 11 patients taken to Hennepin County Medical Center required surgery, Dr. Thomas Wyatt, the chair of emergency medicine, said during a news conference. Nine of the patients were children and two were adults.

"Up to this point in time, there have been no fatalities related to any of those patients that were brought to our organization," Wyatt told reporters.

Authorities said the gunman dressed in black approached the side of the church just before 8:30 a.m. CST, where the school was hosting morning mass. He began firing a rifle through the church windows towards the children who were sitting in pews, according to O'Hara.

“This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping. The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible,” O'Hara said.

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