New details regarding Wednesday’s school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School’s mass at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, reveal the identity of the school shooter and eyewitness accounts of the tragedy.
Law enforcement sources told Fox News that Robin Westman, who also went by Robert Westman, has been identified as the suspect responsible for killing two children and injuring 17 people in Wednesday’s school shooting. Police officials confirmed that Westman killed himself.
A picture shared by Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Politics, shows Robin Westman. Rugg also shared a video that is believed to have been posted by Westman prior to Wednesday’s shooting. The video shows statements such as “For the children,” “Kill Donald Trump,” and “Where is your God?” written on gun magazines.
“The alleged shooter released multiple videos on social media, which showed that he clearly hated Christians,” Rugg tweeted. “They have since been taken down.”
The New York Post confirmed that law enforcement officials are investigating a series of disturbing YouTube videos that could have been posted in connection with Wednesday’s shooting.
According to Fox News, witnesses in Minneapolis reported hearing a “tremendous volume of gunfire” at the time of Wednesday’s school shooting.
Renee Lego, the mother of a 5th-grade student and an 8th-grade student at Annunciation Catholic School, told The Star Tribune that one of her sons thought the gunshots were fireworks or a gas explosion before he saw people falling to the ground.
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“Both my kids have blood on them,” Lego told The Star Tribune. “It’s just horrific — so cowardly. This person knew this was our first all-school Mass of the year. It was obviously planned. This is the children’s Mass, not an advertised Mass for the public.”
Andy Winchell, a Minneapolis resident, told the Star Tribune that he heard gunshots being fired that “went on for a minute plus.”
“It was very loud, like a ‘bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop,'” Winchell stated. “We were like, ‘what was that?’ There was a long pause, and then all of a sudden you hear sirens from everywhere.”
Bill Bienemann, whose daughter previously attended Annunciation Catholic School, told The Star Tribune that he heard between 30 and 50 rounds of rifle fire from two blocks away from the church where the shooting was carried out.
“I know what gunfire sounds like, and I was shocked,” Bienemann said. “I said, ‘There is no way that could be gunfire,’ there was so much of it.”
