[arista]

2 other kids are Critical.



[Suspect identified as Robin Westman,
sources tell NBC
Multiple senior law enforcement officials
have told our US partner network NBC News
that the suspect in today's shooting has
been identified as Robin Westman.

We previously told you how police said
the suspect is in their early 20s with a
limited criminal history (see 17.10 post).

NBC News has been told by the officials
that the suspect posted videos online with
writings referencing suicide,
"extremely violent thoughts and ideas,"
an apology to their family and a handwritten
sketch of the interior layout of a church.

It's unclear whether the church was the one
at Annunciation Catholic School.]



The Evil Killer is now Dead


https://news.sky.com/story/minnesota...-year-13419350

[Ammi]

…oh my Lord, that’s horrendous…and obviously intended to kill many more with the quantity of shots fired….those poor, poor families and those poor terrified children ….

[Crimson Dynamo]

Reduxx can confirm the Annunciation Catholic School shooter is a trans-
identified male named Robin Westman.

Prior to the shooting, Westman uploaded videos to YouTube showing weapons,
including a magazine painted with the text "**** everything that you stand
for."




His manifesto included pride flags and a gun with “kiII Trump” etched onto it.

[Ammi]

“This worship service was marking the first week of school for children that are attending the Annunciation Catholic school.
During the mass, a gunman approached on the outside, on the side of the building and began firing a rifle through the church windows, towards the children sitting in the pews at the mass.
He struck children and worshippers that were inside the building. The shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol. This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping. The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible …
Two young children, ages 8 and 10 were killed where they sat in the pews, their parents have been notified. 17 other people were injured, 14 of them being children. Two of those children are in critical condition. The coward who fired these shots ultimately took his own life in the rear of the church.”

[Crimson Dynamo]

this has not aged well...

[MTVN]

It's horrific, I was only in Minneapolis last weekend for my friends wedding. His wife teaches kids of this age so it feels very close to home but thankfully no one they know is affected. Hard to think people even need to worry about primary school kids being targets though and at a place which is supposed to be a sanctuary

It's also literally hours since the attack took place so I wouldn't trust any news that comes out about the attacker until verified

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yeah lets wait till CNN and the NYTimes tell us what really happened

[Beso]

Whoever it is, the first thing they are is a coward.

[Ammi]

An assailant fired a rifle through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis where students were celebrating their first Mass of the new school year on Wednesday, killing an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old in the pews and injuring 17 others, the police said.

The attacker then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the rear of the church, the Minneapolis police chief, Brian O’Hara, said at a news conference. Of the 17 people injured, 14 were children, the chief said. Two were in critical condition, he said.

The shooting, at about 8:30 a.m. Central time, took place at the Annunciation Catholic Church, which has a school for children from prekindergarten through eighth grade. Monday was the first day of school, and the all-school Mass on Wednesday is an annual tradition.

Investigators have identified the attacker as Robin Westman, 23, who is believed to have been a former student at the school, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. The suspect’s mother is a retired school employee, the official said.

Ellie Mertens, 25, a youth minister at the church, said she was sitting with children in the pews when bullets started ripping through the windows. The shooting lasted for about 2 minutes, she said.

“I was just feet away from this window where it was,” Ms. Mertens said in an interview. “The pew saved my life.”

Chief O’Hara said that at least two doors of the church had been barricaded from the outside. The shooter, who was in his early 20s, also fired a shotgun and a pistol, he said.

“Children are dead, there are families that have a deceased child; you cannot put into words the gravity, tragedy or absolute pain of the situation,” Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said at the news conference.

Mr. Frey, a vocal advocate for stricter gun laws, added: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”

Here’s what else to know:

Witness accounts: Inside the Hennepin County Medical Center emergency room, where multiple victims were taken, Za’khia Jones, 29, was with her fiancée when she saw children who appeared to be bloody being rushed in. “One kid came in and they had rushed her into a room and she was just screaming she didn’t want to die,” Ms. Jones said in an interview. Read more ›

Minnesota violence: The attack was the fourth deadly shooting in the city in just over 24 hours. And the Twin Cities area was rattled in June when a gunman assassinated a state lawmaker and her husband and left another lawmaker and his wife hospitalized with gunshot wounds, setting off a two-day manhunt.

Governor responds: Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota expressed support for the school community in a statement. “I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence,” Mr. Walz said.

Trump: President Trump spoke with Mr. Walz by phone, a White House official said. Mr. Trump wrote on social media that the White House would continue to monitor the situation, and later signed a proclamation ordering that flags nationwide be lowered to half-staff until Sunday in tribute to the victims.


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...hurch-shooting

[MTVN]

Well the reports were correct then, this was an act of terrorism by a trans extremist

[Ammi]

The suspect who opened fire in Minneapolis on a Catholic school during Mass has been identified by officials as a person in their early 20s who left behind videos online with writings that referenced suicide.

Multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News that the person who is responsible for the Wednesday shooting is Robin Westman.

Westman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after firing a rifle through the side windows of the Annunciation Catholic School's church, aiming at children who were sitting in the pews, authorities said.

Two children are dead, aged 8 and 10, and 17 others — including 14 children — were injured in the mass shooting, authorities have said.

Police have said publicly that the suspect has a limited criminal history and is in their early 20s. Name change paperwork for the suspect, who used to go by a different name, shows they were 23 years old.

NBC News has confirmed with law enforcement officials briefed on the matter that the suspect left behind videos posted online with writings that reference suicide, "extremely violent thoughts and ideas," an apology to their family and a handwritten sketch of the interior layout of a church. It's unclear whether that church was the one at Annunciation Catholic School.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ing-rcna227591

[Cherie]

The pointlessness of it all, those poor children

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Well the reports were correct then, this was an act of terrorism by a trans extremist

Yep

https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/19607...EnJeoLGbw&s=19

[Crimson Dynamo]

22.50 pm some leftist on ITV news trying to say the killer has no motivation no message and is linked to the right wing


Stop watching propaganda devil's on MSM

I will hopefully get a clip on X tomorrow

Horrific

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

22.50 pm some leftist on ITV news trying to say the killer has no motivation no message and is linked to the right wing


Stop watching propaganda devil's on MSM

I will hopefully get a clip on X tomorrow

Horrific

Yeah this Robin person clearly weren't right wing.

ITV need to improve their standards.

[Ammi]

…the worlds of those parents today whose children were taken so violently and brutally…and also the worlds of the parents whose children were harmed and who were present…it’s just unfathomable and impossible to think, how broken their world…


…the intent and aim to kill children while they were praying…there are no words…

[MTVN]

Thank God it seems the other children will all survive, I was worried the death toll was going to keep going up

[Crimson Dynamo]

You can survive but they will be scarred for life mentally and physically

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Thank God it seems the other children will all survive, I was worried the death toll was going to keep going up

…yes, me too…I feared more deaths over the hours after the shooting…


…through their whole lives I just can’t imagine how a parent losing a child in such a way can ever make sense of anything …

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

It's horrific, I was only in Minneapolis last weekend for my friends wedding. His wife teaches kids of this age so it feels very close to home but thankfully no one they know is affected. Hard to think people even need to worry about primary school kids being targets though and at a place which is supposed to be a sanctuary

It's also literally hours since the attack took place so I wouldn't trust any news that comes out about the attacker until verified

Terrifying

[Crimson Dynamo]

Iron Mike from Talk TV not having any of the BS when kids are being murdered

https://x.com/ThePosieParker/status/1960961547762565241

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Iron Mike from Talk TV not having any of the BS when kids are being murdered

https://x.com/ThePosieParker/status/1960961547762565241

The thing about it is, is that it's important to record that this person was biologically male otherwise it invalidates statistics and stops them recording accurate details. By a HUGE margin mass shootings are a very very male thing. Between 1982 and Aug 2025 there were 155 mass shootings in the US, of those 149 were men, 4 were women and 2 were a man and woman together

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...oter-s-gender/

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Iron Mike from Talk TV not having any of the BS when kids are being murdered

https://x.com/ThePosieParker/status/1960961547762565241

A bit of common sense, he has just senselessly murdered two children and traumatised many more but we must be mindful of pronouns....nah

[arista]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Reduxx can confirm the Annunciation Catholic School shooter is a trans-
identified male named Robin Westman.

Prior to the shooting, Westman uploaded videos to YouTube showing weapons,
including a magazine painted with the text "**** everything that you stand
for."




His manifesto included pride flags and a gun with “kiII Trump” etched onto it.

Yes the Evil killer was a Trans.

[Crimson Dynamo]

A dangerous combination of Autism and Nihilism