Authorities say 23-year-old who attacked church was ‘obsessed’ with killing children and ‘idolised’ US school shooters.

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A 23-year-old man who killed two young school students and wounded more than a dozen after opening fire on youngsters sitting in a Catholic church in the US city of Minneapolis was “filled with hatred” and “obsessed” with killing children, authorities said.

Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said on Thursday that the suspect had fired 116 bullets through stained-glass windows while the children celebrated Mass on Wednesday during the first week of classes at the Annunciation Catholic School.