Police have identified the Minneapolis Catholic school shooter, who killed two children and wounded 17 other people on Wednesday, as Robin Westman, and have found a YouTube channel seemingly linked to her containing several videos of weapons and a manifesto.
Westman identified as a trans woman and changed her name to Robin from Robert in 2020. She was referred to as he by the police in the initial press briefing of the shooting.
The YouTube channel, which has since been deleted, showed Westman's collection of guns and weapons, on which 'six million wasn't enough,' and 'extra Jew gas,' were written, in reference to the Holocaust. She also wrote "Israel must fall" on the barrel of one gun.
On one, she wrote "I am a terrorist" and "I'm a nightmare" in Russian. She also wrote "Where is your god?" and "Kill pedos"
On the side of one bump stock, she wrote the names of six school shooters, including Sandy Hook school shooter Adam Lanza.
The videos also showed what appeared to be Westman flipping through a handwritten journal where he wrote about “being that scary, horrible monster standing over those powerless kids” and his admiration for the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
Westman's manifesto lays out detailed plan
In videos attributed to Westman's YouTube account, she uses Cyrillic letters as a sort of code to write out her thoughts. Footage reviewed by The Jerusalem Post found that she laid out her plans quite seriously for a period of months and included maps of the school and the on-site church.
“I’m feeling good about Annunciation,” a manifesto attributed to Westman on social media reads. She then goes on to say that she planned the massacre so that she would avoid parents, as she believed they would have a gun to attack her with “scary ferocity”.
She starts and stops on the pages haphazardly, but notes on one page that she would have to wait for school to start again.
In some of the pages, she expresses that she "can't wait to kill" and that she "wants to kill kids for fun."
Reuters reported that Westman's mother, Mary Westman, had worked as an administrative assistant at Annunciation Church.
'I am a terrorist'
In other videos of her manifesto, Westman wrote that she believed that she had cancer, or that she was a cancer on the world.
She also repeatedly wrote in Cyrillic characters "I am sick, I fall, and I die" in one entry. In another, she wrote "I am your nightmare. I am the harbinger of destruction."
She purchased the guns legally, local law enforcement said at a press conference. In a 20-minute video traced to the account, she claimed that her father gave her $2,000 for financial support, which she used to buy a gun.
Local police are currently investigating the connection between Westman and the channel, The New York Post reported, citing sources.
The FBI is currently investigating the attack as an "act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics," according to Reuters.