Inside the Mind of the Minneapolis School Shooter | The REAL Story with Dr. Phil
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Dr. Phil McGraw
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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A Catholic School's church turned into a killing ground. An eight-year-old and a ten-year-old, gunned down while praying. The shooter's journals, videos, and red flags were everywhere. This episode is brought to you by Amen Clinics: Take the guesswork out of mental health care. Call 866-580-6569 or go to https://AmenClinics.com/DrPhil
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I'm sadden to report, and even more sadden to say I'm not surprised, that there was yet another school shooting just last week. |
| 0:12.6 | This time, it wasn't in a classroom. It wasn't on a playground. It was in a church. |
| 0:18.9 | Children, as young as eight years old, gunned down, as they sat in |
| 0:22.8 | pews literally praying. It makes you wonder what in the world is going on. I wish I never had to |
| 0:30.4 | read headlines like these again, but here we are. Two children killed and 17 people injured |
| 0:36.4 | in shooting at Minneapolis Catholic School. |
| 0:39.2 | Shooter fired rifle through Minneapolis church windows as children were in mass. |
| 0:46.0 | It happened in Minneapolis, the gunman, a 23-year-old who identified as a woman. |
| 0:52.7 | And no, I'm not going to say the name. If you want to find it, |
| 0:56.0 | you can find it. But I just refuse to give airtime to the bad actor in this. I'm just not going |
| 1:03.5 | to do it. But the shooter opened fire at Annunciation Catholic Church, part of the |
| 1:09.0 | Annunciation Catholic School for pre-K through |
| 1:12.5 | eighth grade. Two children's names, who I will say, eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old |
| 1:19.3 | Harper Moiskey, were killed. 17 others, 14 of them children, were injured. Two were critical. 150 shell casings were found at the scene. |
| 1:31.6 | Now, the shooter barricaded exits with tubafors to trap people inside, and how did it end? |
| 1:39.9 | With an act of suicide in the back of the church. |
| 1:43.0 | Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said, |
| 1:46.0 | The public expects law enforcement to provide some explanation for what happened. |
| 1:52.0 | But the reality is, this is an unthinkable, completely senseless act. |
| 1:58.0 | Violence perpetrated against children worshipping at mass. |
| 2:02.6 | The distraught mayor, Jacob Fry, said, |
| 2:05.6 | Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. |
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