Robin Westman, who killed two people in a church shooting at a Minneapolis on Wednesday, visited the church weeks before the attack, a senior law enforcement official told CNN.

Armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, Westman, 23, shot dozens of rounds Wednesday morning toward 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. Two children were killed and 17 other people were wounded.

Westman intended to carry out the shooting from inside Annunciation Church, with the goal of inflicting many more casualties among the children targeted, authorities told CNN.

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