“Coalition4Justice Mourns Minneapolis School Shooting Victims and Calls for Action to Protect Children”

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Dear C4J Family,

I am writing to notify you of a recent incident at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, where two students lost their lives and eighteen others were injured during prayers because of a school shooting. Each school year, parents and children encounter tragic outcomes resulting from these events. Fear of mass shooting in our nation’s schools is now a part of children’s school experience. The attack on Minneapolis children and families during worship is also an assault on our nation. According to reports, the shooter, a 2017 graduate of the Annunciation

Catholic school with deeply entrenched fascination with mass shootings, made several hateful messages and writings about diverse groups of people, including Christians, Jews, Muslims, Black people, Hispanic, and LGBTQ+ people.

Every student should be safe in school, and no child should add fear to his or her school experience. No family should have to endure the trauma of violence or mass shootings at their children’s school. And every American should feel safe in a place of worship. Schools are doing their best with reduced federal funding to invest in costly security measures that may not always work to prevent such carnage or reduce the risk of mass shooting. The stark reality of these mass school shootings is that it can happen anywhere and any day. Therefore, it is time that our country should take such killings seriously and act to stop mass shooting in our nation’s schools and anywhere else.

Coalition4Justice expresses heartfelt sympathy for families who lost loved ones, the injured, the Catholic Community, and Minneapolis residents affected by this tragedy and hate. We encourage our audience and everyone in our orbit to contact and push their legislators for strategies that will keep every child safe and healthy in school. Coalition4Justice mourns with the families of those killed or injured, and hopes they find comfort in their memories.

May the souls of those killed rest peacefully and may the injured recover fully from their wounds.

In Sympathy,

    Bernadine Ahonkhai

C4J Founder & CEO