The grieving father of eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel has spoken out after his son was killed Wednesday during a mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minn. “A coward decided to take our eight-year-old son Fletcher away from us,” Jesse Merkel told reporters Thursday.
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