Horrible mass shooting today of children worshipping in a church.
By Marie Coyle
@MarieCoyle (49650)
August 27, 2025 11:43am CST
Minneapolis, MN. August 27, 2025.
This couldn't get any more evil. To shoot children in a church, and a few adults, while they were sitting in pews praying? What kind of evil takes over people's minds to do this? Several children are dead, and others are hanging on to their lives...17 people are injured.
Shooter, a male in his early 20's, the reason for the shooting is not known. The shooter than killed himself.
Why??? What does killing children solve?? It's like an epidemic, so many terrible stories that are unfortunately true.
My heart hurts.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/27/us/minneapolis-church-shooting
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@Vikingswest1 (7443)
• United States
27 Aug
It was a former male. A trans woman is responsible for today's violence.
The second video is particularly disturbing. In fact, MyLot won't let me post it. X is trying to hide it too.
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1960756173528842541?t=WS14n-MFkO2CJuwPMNwU6w&s=01
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@LeaPea2417 (38551)
• Toccoa, Georgia
27 Aug
@Vikingswest1 I will just say it. Most Trans have mental disorders.
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@Vikingswest1 (7443)
• United States
27 Aug
@MarieCoyle
I agree. It's terrible no matter who was responsible but it strikes me as odd that the identity was concealed in initial reports when the manifesto had already been uncovered.
More attention should be given to mental health issues.
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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27 Aug
Man, woman, trans, whatever...it was still a human being, and it was still terrible...obviously, whoever and whatever the person was, he/she was mentally ill, for sure.
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@celticeagle (180567)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Aug
I saw this in my news feed. I couln't even read it. 17 people and for what? And they always kill themselves after these horrible acts. The cowards.
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@celticeagle (180567)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Aug
@MarieCoyle ......I get the jist of it from the videos and such. Ugh! I've seen too much of this sort of thing. It makes my heart hurt. I have to pick and choose because I am too sensitive to anxiety.
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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29 Aug
@celticeagle
Yes, I agree, much of the news can be very upsetting and concerning.
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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28 Aug
I have to read it. I want to know what is happening, even if it isn't what I want to know...I have kids and grands out there, I can't help it, I just want to be informed.
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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28 Aug
@rebelann
I don't think I felt that way, but I can certainly imagine why it came across that way. It does seem worse somehow, I guess, being in a church. The one place that we should be able to find peace and worship without violence and hate...isn't that way anymore.
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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28 Aug
Or he could have reached out for help…did he not have any family who noticed anything amiss? Makes a person wonder.
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@arunima25 (92470)
• Bangalore, India
27 Aug
Oh My God!! That terrible. 
This seems like increasing each day. We keep hearing of such incidences of shooting from the US very frequently. Something needs to be done. These shooters have some deep emotional stress. The emotional health of a society is equally important as the financial health that is so much talked about
This seems like increasing each day. We keep hearing of such incidences of shooting from the US very frequently. Something needs to be done. These shooters have some deep emotional stress. The emotional health of a society is equally important as the financial health that is so much talked about1 person likes this
@MarieCoyle (49650)
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27 Aug
For some reason, this particular shooting just hit me so hard today. I was once that small child, sitting in the pew at church during school. I cannot imagine the horror of ever going back to that same setting if I was a child shot in a church...it will be so hard for them all to come to terms with.
I have to agree...emotional/mental health is beyond important. Some never seek help, and some don't want it. Very concerning.
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@arunima25 (92470)
• Bangalore, India
28 Aug
@MarieCoyle Even listening to it is so disturbing. Can't imagine the pain and trauma of the victims
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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29 Aug
@arunima25
I can’t, either. It’s not like that’s something those children will ever forget.
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@jaylar (2470)
• Kingston, Jamaica
29 Aug
it started out that it was a man who shot them.... then the reporter started to say 'they' but there was only one shooter.
There was not clear info about what and who, etc.
Clearly this was one of those mentally ill people who didn't know if it was male or female and went to shoot up a Cahtolic church because they didn't support it's insanity
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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31 Aug
@jaylar
I am sure there are a lot of things that take place here that we will never know the complete truth about.
@jaylar (2470)
• Kingston, Jamaica
30 Aug
@MarieCoyle I think they are hiding the facts. For some reason they don't want to admit the truth
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@crossbones27 (51355)
• Mojave, California
28 Aug
Here is what I think, I by no way agree with this. Its just people's logic. They go after children to stop what they were taught by adults. They think by doing that no one will ever be a liberal or conservative again. Its dumb and as you grow up your view of the world changes for most people. As Marines say, adapt or die, but only if it makes sense.
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@crossbones27 (51355)
• Mojave, California
28 Aug
@MarieCoyle No one is all violent, you are taught that,
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@FourWalls (79450)
• United States
28 Aug
So the shooter killed himself. Why didn’t he do that first and save everyone all the pain?
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@RasmaSandra (89834)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Aug
Just wrote about it myself, It is just so unfair, The idot should have just shot himself and left everyone else alone,
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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28 Aug
That's the frustrating part--not knowing why they do things like this, and what their agenda was. Supposedly, this killer's mother once worked at this school. Someone said (on another site, not here) that maybe the mother was fired or not treated nicely, etc. so her child went after them? But that didn't make sense to me, as they said it had been some years since the mother had worked there.
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@MarieCoyle (49650)
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27 Aug
I have family in White Bear Lake, and one in St Paul, so not far. When these things happen, it affects us all. Like I said, this hit very hard. And regardless of who did it or what they were, it’s beyond tragic and terrible.
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