Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says it's time to 'take serious action' after deadly school shooting

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz connected Friday said it was clip to "take superior action" successful the authorities legislature aft a deadly shooting astatine a Catholic schoolhouse successful Minneapolis this week.

"It’s clip to instrumentality superior enactment astatine the State Capitol to code weapon violence," the Democrat and erstwhile 2024 vice-presidential campaigner wrote successful an X post. 

Walz has been considering a peculiar league connected guns adjacent period astatine the authorities capitol and has been calling legislators aft a fatal shooting astatine the Annunciation Catholic Church Wednesday, according to FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul.

An 8-year-old boy, Fletcher Merkel, and a 10-year-old girl, Harper Moyski, were killed astatine the back-to-school event. Eighteen others were injured, including 15 children. 

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The shooter’s mother, Mary Grace Westman, antecedently refused to talk to constabulary and retained a lawyer, Fox News reported. 

Minneapolis Assistant Police Chief Christopher Gaiters said astatine a quality league Friday that, with the practice of the Minnesota Department of Safety’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, determination has been "conversation" with Westman, "and I’m not astatine liberty to spell immoderate further."

When asked what changes the metropolis has made since the 2020 George Floyd riots to respond to incidents, Mayor Jacob Frey said, "What this is much astir than circumstantial changes is practice, and we signifier a full lot. We practiced the coordination done our incidental absorption system. 

"We practiced connection channels and however that would enactment successful a clip of crisis. We practiced making definite radical understood precisely what their work was careless of the events that mightiness occur. And that whitethorn dependable similar a tiny thing. It’s not."

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He said the "flow of accusation was drastically improved," adding that the politician had instantly offered assistance aft the shooting.

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Gaiters said the Minneapolis Police Department was conducting further patrols astatine each schools and spiritual institutions. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Walz's bureau for comment.