THE Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman’s mother is “not cooperating” with cops after her son killed two children in a horrific church attack.
Robin Westman, 23, murdered two children and injured over a dozen others after shooting through the windows of the Annunciation Church School in Minneapolis during morning Mass on Wednesday.
Minneapolis shooting Mary Grace Westman worked at the school where the shooting occurred
Robin Westman, 23, penned hundreds of letters before carrying out a shooting at a Catholic church in Minnesota
Westman’s note was addressed to family and friends
At a press conference on Thursday, police said her mother, Mary Grace Westman has not contacted officers or responded to their attempts to reach her.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara said: “We have not been successful in talking to the shooter’s mother”
The Department of Justice is investigating the shooting as a domestic terror attack and Catholic hate crime.
Although a motive is still unclear, Mary worked at the adjacent Catholic school as a secretary until her retirement in 2021. Westman had also attended the school.
Before the shooting, the killer uploaded a warped video to YouTube, where weapons and magazines that contained vile antisemitic slurs and sick threats were shown off.
Police say that hundreds of pages of writings belonging to the shooter show just how hateful Westman really was.
Court documents obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune said that in 2019, Westman’s mother had applied to change her child’s name from Robert Paul Westman to Robin M. Westman.
Westman, who was a minor at that time, “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification,” the outlet reported.
Westman demonstrated an obsession with mass shooters. The name Rupnow was written on a rifle.
Natalie Rupnow shot dead two people after opening fire at the Abundant Life Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, in December 2024.
Other guns had the names of other mass killers, including Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2018.
Westman’s journal appeared to contain a drawing that showed the layout of the church.
CHURCH HORROR
Children were in the pews of the Annunciation Church when Westman opened fire just before 8:30 am local time.
The shooter, who was wearing black clothing and armed with three weapons, fired through the windows.
Cops confirmed the guns were bought legally.
The tragedy unfolded on what was the first week of school following the summer break.
The two children, who were killed, were found in the pews.
Eighteen others, mostly students, were hurt in the attacks, with some still in critical condition.
Westman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The murderer’s body was found in the parking lot.
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