Two children were killed and 17 people were injured — 14 of them children — in a shooting Wednesday morning at a Minneapolis Catholic school, as students, staff and parishioners were gathered for a Mass to mark the first week of classes.
The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, was found dead in the back of the church from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara. Authorities say they are still investigating Westman's motive for the attack.
"This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping," O'Hara told reporters. "The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible."
Youtube.com most helpfully erased the killer's socialist media presense, but others have captured some of it. Some of the links are repetitive:
The two tweets badanov posts below have what appear to be the killer’s manifesto:
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Courtesy of Elmomoter Mussolini9149:
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Videos linked to Minneapolis shooting suspect show antisemitic, anti-Israel messages
​[IsraelTimes] Alleged shooter posted videos showing weapons with the slogans ‘burn Israel,’ ‘6 million wasn’t enough’ and references to 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooter.
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[IsraelTimes] FBI Director Kash Patel says a deadly school shooting in Minneapolis is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics.
Patel identifies the attacker as Robin Westman, who public records show to be a 23-year-old resident of the area. Court records show Westman’s name was changed from Robert Westman in 2020 on the grounds that they identified as female.
Officials say the shooter did not have an extensive criminal history and note they are trying to identify a motive.
Authorities say they found a smoke bomb at the scene and were searching a vehicle in the parking lot.
Public records show Westman’s mother, Mary Westman, had worked as an administrative assistant at Annunciation Church.
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