{
  "id": 2798728,
  "title": "Inside shooting victim Fletcher Merkel's bedroom",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/inside-shooting-victim-fletcher-merkels-bedroom",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-23T14:01:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBS News",
    "slug": "cbs-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/video/inside-shooting-victim-fletcher-merkels-bedroom/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel was one of two students killed when a gunman fired randomly into the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis last August. Steve Hartman (who documented the bedrooms of young shooting victims in the Oscar-winning short documentary \"All the Empty Rooms\") talked with Fletcher's parents, Jesse and Mollie, about their son, and the sacred space he left behind. [For…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}