MINNEAPOLIS—Extra police are keeping watch at schools throughout the metro area here after a mass-casualty shooting left the community reeling and demanding preventive action.
The Minneapolis and St. Paul police departments worked with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies “to expand patrols around all schools within Minneapolis over the next couple of weeks,” the City of Minneapolis said. Officers were being organized into “two-person squads, with two squads assigned per precinct across five precincts in Minneapolis, with a particular focus on schools and places of worship.”
Leaders announced the enhanced police presence on Aug. 28, a day after a gunman killed two schoolchildren, wounded 15 other youths, and also injured three elderly parishioners at Annunciation Catholic Church before turning the gun on himself. The church shares a campus with Annunciation Catholic School along the 500 block of West 54th Street in southwest Minneapolis….