At least two children died and 17 other people were injured in an armed attack in an adjoining church in a Catholic school in Minnesota in the United States on Wednesday, August 27. The actor of the facts opened fire before committing suicide when turning the weapon against it, according to local authorities.
According to the researchers, the attacker was identified as Robin Westman, a 23 -year -old transgender woman who had previously assisted school as a student. He graduated in 2017, according to the final book consulted by CNN.
Other media, such as the New York Post, report that the mother of the suspect previously worked in the target Catholic Church, before retiring in 2021. Robin Westman’s parents lived in Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara did not confirm the links between Robin Westman, his family and the Catholic Church.
Robin Westman was armed this Wednesday with a rifle, a shotgun and a gun, according to the Minneapolis police chief. Local authorities believe that each of these weapons attended during the assault.
According to CNN, the suspect has legal and “recently” the acquisition of these weapons and had no criminal record. He had also obtained a license to carry weapons, as imposed by law in Minnesota.
A manifesto and disturbing inscriptions
The American Federal Police, the FBI, opened an investigation for “act of internal terrorism” and “crime motivated by Anti -Catholic hatred,” Kash Patel, head of this agency, announced. It remains to understand what led Robin Westman to appear strongly armed in front of this Church, before committing suicide.
At the moment, no mobile has been highlighted. “We are aware of a manifesto that the shooter scheduled to be transmitted on YouTube,” he also told Brian O’Hara to the US media, who describes the person at the origin of the shots as a twenty -year -old man born with a first different name.
“This manifesto seems to show it in the scene, with disturbing writings. Since then, this content has been eliminated from the platform and is now actively studied by our researchers.”
Since then, the American press has affirmed that the records shown were “killing Donald Trump now”, “for children”, “without repentance” or “Israel must be arrested” and has been written about the loaders of their weapons. Some words were written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
A YouTube page that questions researchers
On the YouTube page of the suspect, since he retired from the platform, he shows in the process of consulting pages of his newspaper explaining his fascination with violence and his obsession with mass murders in particular for attacks in schools, reports NBC News. In this channel, Robin Westman would also have talked about suicide, depression or his own racism.
Police would also have confirmed NBC News that the assailant left an excuse letter to his family and a sketch made by the hand of the interior plane of a church. They did not confirm that these were plans of the attacked building.
Brian O’Hara describes the act of Robin Westman as “cruel and cowardly”, while the drama occurs only during the first week of school. At the moment, the authorities believe that the former student of the establishment acted alone.
Source: BFM TV
