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(MSC News)--Following the fatal shooting Wednesday at a Minneapolis, Minnesota, Catholic school, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, through Executive Order Thursday, ordered all flags across Kansas to be flown half-staff in honor of the victims.
A release from Kelly's office announcing the order, says "flags throughout the State of Kansas [are to] be lowered to half-staff effective immediately until sundown on Sunday, August 31."
Kelly, in the release, says Kansans "grieve with the families who lost children, whose children were injured, and to all who will be impacted by this act of violence" that occurred at Annunciation Catholic School which left, according to initial media reports, 2 children dead and 17 others at the school injured.
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