A fifth-grader has detailed how he was sitting “two seats away” from the stained glass windows as a shooter opened fire during Mass at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.
Weston Halsne, 10, told CBS affiliate WCCO that he felt gunpowder on his neck after multiple shots were fired at Annunciation Church.
He thinks he only survived the shooting because his friend lay on top of him (watch the interview at the end of the article).
Two children are dead and more than a dozen others wounded after an attacker armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol shot through the windows toward the children sitting in the pews just before 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, officials confirmed. The shooter is now dead.
“It was like shots fired, and then we kind of got under the pews,” Halsne said to a reporter. “They shot through the stained-glass windows, I think. And it was really scary.”
