White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that law enforcement in Washington arrested a juvenile overnight for “allegedly threatening violence towards a school,” hours after the mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that killed two children and injured more than a dozen others.

Leavitt said in a press conference on Thursday: “We completely and totally understand the concerns of parents across the country” after the shooting Wednesday morning at Annunciation Church School.

“This tragedy … is heartbreaking, as a parent myself there are no words to describe just the heartbreak that these families must be enduring which is why the president and the first lady have encouraged everyone to continue to pray for these families and these victims,” she added.

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