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Witnesses are describing moments of terror and courage during a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis this week.
NPR's Vanessa Romo spoke with one woman who was there when gunfire blasted through the church's stained glass windows.
Mass had begun and the worshipers of Annunciation Church had just finished the psalm,
You have searched me and you know me, Lord, when the first shots rang out.
Catherine Spandell, an alumni of the small Catholic school, was attending.
She says she hid under the pews.
Amid the gunfire, she reached for a familiar hand.
As I lay there on the ground, I looked forward, and the young woman two rows ahead,
who is our pastoral minister for the children, she was facing me.
And we reached towards each other, and we prayed the Hail Mary together, and we were both crying.
Eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel,
who was one of two students killed in the shooting, sat just four pews ahead of Spandau.
At least 18 other parishioners, a majority of them children, were injured.