The attacker of the attack against a church in Minneapolis was “obsessed” by the idea of ”killing children,” authorities said on Thursday, August 28 that continue to investigate the mobile of the murder.
According to the last evaluation, two children were triggered and 18 people injured, including 15 children, in this attack on Wednesday, August 27, a church adjacent to a Catholic school in this city in the north of the United States.
Dozens of schoolchildren attended a mass there, two days after the start of the school year.
A “crime motivated by anti -Catholic hatred”
If the mobile of the attack remains to be determined, this person “wanted, more than anything, kill the children” and was “obsessed” for that reason, Joe Thompson, the state prosecutor of Minnesota, told the press. She committed suicide in the spot.
Robin Westman, 23, who had attended school as a student, wrote “hundreds of pages” found by researchers where “his hatred expressed himself to all groups (…), black people (…), Mexicans (…), Christians (…), the Jews,” said Joe Thompson.
A message called to kill President Donald Trump was also found.
“The shooter idolized some of the most sadly famous murderers in the history of our country” and also added.
The American Federal Police, the FBI, opened an investigation for “act of internal terrorism” and “crime motivated by Anti -Catholic hatred.”
At least 287 murders in 2025
According to the police, Robin Westman “was born under the name of Robert Westman.” The documents of the 2019-2020 courts, consulted by AFP, report a change of name, by Robert to Robin, of this person born of male but identifying himself as a woman.
With more firearms in circulation than residents, the United States has the highest weapons mortality rate in all developed countries.
This year, at least 287 murders that had left at least four dead or injured, took place in the United States, according to the NGO weapon violence archive.
Source: BFM TV
