Authorities look for motive behind US school shooting

Investigators were examining the videos, writings and movements of the shooter who fired through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding 17 people, for connections to the church and its school to understand the motivation for the attack.

- Associated Press

Armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, 23-year-old Robin Westman shot dozens of rounds Wednesday morning toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis Police chief Brian O'Hara said. The shooter then died by suicide, he said.

The children who died were eight and 10. Fourteen other kids and three octogenarian parishioners were wounded, the chief said.