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🗓️ 27 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. |
| 0:04.6 | Just days into the new school year this morning, a shooter opened fire at a Catholic church and school in Minneapolis. |
| 0:11.4 | Police say two children were killed and 17 others were wounded. |
| 0:15.2 | The suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. |
| 0:18.7 | Minnesota Public Radio's Peter Cox has more. |
| 0:21.3 | The mass shooting occurred at an unseason church and school in Minneapolis. Wednesday at the |
| 0:26.7 | church, the church is right next to the school. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said |
| 0:32.5 | late Wednesday morning that the shooting happened during the morning mass, which was marking the first week of school |
| 0:38.6 | in which children and adults were worshipping. O'Hara said the shooter appeared to do most or all |
| 0:44.7 | shooting from outside through windows. They had a rifle, shotgun, and a pistol, and police |
| 0:51.1 | say the shooter used all three firing dozens of rounds. |
| 0:55.0 | The police chief said the guns had been recently and legally obtained. |
| 0:59.4 | He said authorities are now reviewing documents that have been left behind |
| 1:02.8 | that were time to be released on YouTube during the shootings. |
| 1:07.0 | The Florida official in charge of the immigration detention Detention Center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz |
| 1:12.0 | says he expects the facility to empty within days. |
| 1:16.0 | In the meantime, as NPRs, Greg Allen reports, Florida is fighting the lawsuit, ordering it to shut down. |
| 1:22.4 | In a response to a request from clergy who wanted to serve as chaplains at the Immigration Detention Center, |
| 1:27.3 | the director of Florida's Department of Emergency Management, Kevin Guthrie, said an email stating, |
| 1:32.2 | we're probably going to be down to zero individuals within a few days. |
| 1:35.9 | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says federal immigration officials are sending fewer people to the facility. |
| 1:40.7 | Now, obviously there's litigation that's been going on that DHS is a party to, |
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