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An 8-year-old and 10-year-old sitting in pews were killed when a shooter opened fire through the windows of a church at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, police said.

Axar.az informs, citing ABC news, seventeen others were injured in the shooting during a Mass that marked the first week of school, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said.

Fourteen of the injured victims were children ages 6 to 15, and the three adults who were shot were parishioners in their 80s, he said. All of those injured are expected to survive, O'Hara said.

The shooter died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, O'Hara said. The FBI identified the shooter as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who was born Robert Westman.

Driver's license information reviewed by ABC News described Westman as a female, born on June 17, 2002. A name change application for a minor born on the same date, June 17, 2002, was approved by a district court in Minnesota in 2020, changing the name of a Robert Westman to Robin Westman, explaining the minor child "identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification."