Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said at a Wednesday press conference that every child injured during a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School is expected to live.
Two children aged 8 and 10 “were killed where they sat in the pews” and 17 other individuals, including 14 children, were injured before the gunman fatally shot himself, O’Hara said at an earlier press conference on Wednesday. O’Hara said at the most recent press conference that he believed all of the children were currently accompanied by their parents and that their injuries varied in severity.
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“I believe all of them have their parents with them now. And they are all expected to survive,” O’Hara said. “All of the remaining victims are expected to survive. There is a range of injuries, however.”
The Catholic School teaches kindergarteners through eighth-graders and the shooting occurred while students were in a morning Mass service, FOX6 Milwaukee reported.
Authorities identified Robin Westman, a man in his early 20s, as the gunman.
Videos from a YouTube channel bearing Westman’s name were posted around the time of the shooting, showing disturbing footage featuring multiple guns, cartridges and ammunition. Statements written on the weaponry included “where is your God?” and other ramblings, the Daily Caller News Foundation found.
The footage, which the DCNF saved before it was deleted, shows what seems to be Westman filming an array of weapons in a bedroom and writings on paper apologizing to his family. A thumbnail image from a four-year-old video on the channel shows a man whose face matches images of Westman shared by The New York Post.
“I was corrupted by this world and have learned to hate what life is … I have wanted this for so long,” a notebook shown on camera reads. “I am not well. I am not right. I am a sad person, haunted by these thoughts that do not go away.”
Additional written messages in the footage show a seemingly incoherent blend of racial slurs, a pride flag, calls to kill President Donald Trump, the phrase “kill pedos,” pentagram symbols, and a statement that “6 million wasn’t enough,” apparently referencing the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.
Another clip shows a picture of Jesus Christ on a shooting target, with words “fuck everything that you stand for” seen on one of the cartridges.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also verified in a Wednesday X post that the shooter wrote “For the Children,” “Where is your God?” and “Kill Donald Trump” on a cartridge, matching the deleted videos.
“We have confirmation that the shooter at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, MN was a 22 year-old man, claiming to be transgender,” Noem wrote.
Moreover, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X that Westman changed his name from Robert to Robin.
“The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics,” Patel wrote.
