World News Boy, aged 8 years old, killed in Catholic School Shooting named

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A boy of 8 years old has been named who was killed in the Catholic school shooting. Flether Merkel was named as one of the two children killed during a mass killing in a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

This is so sad to hear children with their whole lives ahead of them taken away at a place they should have been safe

An eight-year-old boy killed in the US Catholic school shooting has been named - as his father branded the attacker a "coward".

Fletcher Merkel was one of two children killed during mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

Eighteen other people were injured, including children aged between six and 15 and three adults in their 80s.

Police said Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman, opened fire with a rifle through the windows of the school's church as children sat in pews.

Source Sky News