WATCH: Left-Wing Protesters Harass Vance Family As They Pray For School Shooting Victims

A small group of left-wing protesters heckled Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, as they prayed for victims of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday.

Vance, a practicing Catholic, travelled to the grieving community on Wednesday morning, While there, he and Usha prayed outside the building, where a transgender-identifying gunman indiscriminately opened fire at children while they attended a school-wide mass.

Two children, eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski, were killed in the attack. An additional 14 students and three staff members were injured, some of them seriously.

As the Vance family met with victims and prayed outside the building, a small group of dysgenic left-wing protesters showed up outside to heckle them. Many of the protesters held up identical signs reading, “Hate Won’t Make America Great” while others carried homemade signs with messages like, “Fascism Won’t Save Children.”

Additional protesters held up LGBT pride flags, a bizarre image when considering the Catholic School children were murdered by a transgender individual. At least one protester displayed a transgender flag as the vice president made his way into the church, according to footage obtained by on-the-ground reporter Dustin Grage.

Checking in on the protestors outside of J.D. Vance’s visit, as he pays his respects to the victims of the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting.

Weird. pic.twitter.com/xXQUein3B6

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 3, 2025

J.D. Vance and Usha Vance enter Annunciation Church in Minneapolis.

Leftist protestors proceed to shout “You’re a coward” and “do better” while flying a rainbow flag. pic.twitter.com/ZVmLlL85wg

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 3, 2025

Speaking to reporters before he left the state, Vance said, “I have never had a day that will stay with me like this day did,” according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The vice president noted that one of the victims, Lydia Kaiser, is still “fighting for her life” and could use prayers as she attempts to recover.

“One of the ways that I’m going to try to honor these parents and the children that they lost is by being a better dad and hugging my kids tight tonight and making sure that their dad loves them, because there are two families that are not going to get that opportunity ever again,” he said.

When asked about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s calls for a special session to pass more gun control measures, the vice president stated that he was not there to tell Minnesota lawmakers how to respond to the shooting.

At the federal level, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has commissioned an investigation into whether the shooter was taking psychoactive drugs. He has also authorized an investigation into the pathology of mass shooters.