MINNEAPOLIS—As the sun set Thursday night at Annunciation Catholic Church and School, resident Kate Campo sat on the ground, weeping over a gunman’s deadly Wednesday morning ambush of a back-to-school Mass at the school.
Campo’s Saint Bernard, Magnus, licked her tears away. But they kept flowing over the deaths of two schoolchildren and the wounding of 17 other victims.
“It’s personal,” Campo said, even for people like her, who didn’t know the children who were slain—Fletcher Merkel, an 8-year-old boy, and Harper Moyski, a 10-year-old girl.
The tragedy “hits us all very personally,” Campo told The Epoch Times, because the community surrounding the church is close-knit….