INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Indiana Governor Mike Braun has directed flags across the State of Indiana to be flown at half-staff out of respect for the victims involved in the mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school on Wednesday.
Flags at state facilities will remain at half-staff until sunset on Sunday, August 31.
Armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, 23-year-old Robin Westman shot dozens of rounds Wednesday morning toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said. The shooter then died by suicide, he said.
The children who died were 8 and 10. Fourteen other kids and three octogenarian parishioners were wounded but expected to survive, the chief said.
This directive also follows President Donald Trump’s order for flags to be lowered at all U.S. federal buildings
