Over two years before Wednesday’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was urged to address security concerns at nonpublic schools in the state, The Daily Wire reported.

“We are writing on behalf of our respective organizations regarding the urgent and critical need in Minnesota to make sure our schools are secure and safe considering the most recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state,” wrote Jason Adkins, executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, and Tim Benz, president of Minndependent, in an April 2023 letter.

A month earlier, three students and three adults had been shot and killed at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, by Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old who attended the school as a child.

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