Less than 24 hours before two children were slain and 21 others injured at Annunciation Catholic Church, another mass shooting shook the community surrounding Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in south Minneapolis.
The fallout from the shooting near Lake Street and Interstate 35W was eclipsed by what happened less than 24 hours later and just a few miles south at Annunciation. But for students at Cristo Rey, it raised similar fears.
Sam Garcia, a sophomore at Cristo Rey, said he was inside the school when he heard five booming sounds from the rifle that was fired on Clinton Avenue, which runs alongside the school. While he said he feels secure at Cristo Rey, he found it worrying that the shooting happened just outside.
“It was pretty concerning, because you don’t really feel that safe anymore at schools,” Garcia said on Tuesday.
Minneapolis police look for evidence in a van with a window shot out on Clinton Avenue S. after six people were wounded and one man was killed when a gunman opened fire on a group gathered on a sidewalk near Cristo Rey Jesuit High School on Aug. 26. (Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Tiffany Lynn Marie Martindale, 30, and Ryan Timothy Quinn, 33, are charged with aiding an offender to avoid arrest. They are accused of driving the shooter to the scene before he got out and fired numerous shots into a small crowd on the sidewalk and got back in the car. The suspect was wearing a mask and goes by “Bino,” according to criminal complaints.
The shooting unfolded about 1:30 p.m. on the 2900 block of Clinton Avenue S., across the street from the building that houses the private Catholic high school and the nonprofit Urban Ventures. At least one of the victims in the group was targeted, Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.
Jaqueline Cardona, a junior at Cristo Rey, said she was particularly worried because the shooting was closer to the north side of the Urban Ventures building that houses the Cornwell Early Learning Center, which cares for pre-kindergarten children. She said she is concerned about safety along Lake Street overall, which in recent years has been the scene of fatal [shootings and other violent crimes](https://www.startribune.com/overnight-shooting-brings-minneapolis-its-sixth-homicide-in-the-past-week/601465874).