Minneapolis Catholic school gunman ID'd as Robin Westman

[dalton99a]

https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/minneapolis-catholic-school-gunman-idd-as-robin-westman-while-possible-manifesto-shows-psychotic-obsession-with-mass-shooters/

Minneapolis Catholic school gunman ID’d as Robin Westman— while possible manifesto shows psychotic obsession with mass shooters
By Joe Marino and Chris Nesi
Published Aug. 27, 2025, 1:24 p.m. ET

The school shooter in Minneapolis who killed two children and injured at least 17 others has been identified as law enforcement investigates an apparent manifesto possibly linked to the suspect, sources confirmed to The Post.

Robin Westman, who is in his early 20s, opened fire through the stained glass windows of Annunciation Catholic Church during a celebratory back-to-school Mass filled with children, around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Police are investigating whether a sick 20-minute YouTube video shared on an account hours before the shooting was connected to Westman.

In the video, a hand slowly turns the pages of a red notebook, which is laid out on top of what appears to be schematic gun diagrams.

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[Redleg]

1. I am shocked that a young man would do such a thing.

Next thing we'll find out is that he is white.

[Deep State Witch]

4. He is

Check the picture in the article. He is.

[Dr. Strange]

32. Woman.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/shooter-identified-in-minneapolis-catholic-school-shooting/89-bafd06bc-fafe-4187-ae44-64ed0b2fd138

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

43. Surprisingly maga talk radio today acknowledged that most school shooters are white males

[Sneederbunk]

2. That was fast.

Five days after the Houston home invasion, and they still haven't identified the gunmen who were shot.

[LeftInTX]

10. Two guys who died at the exact same time of gunshot wounds are on the medical examiner's website.

https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/1n0gfgh/news_from_the_22nd_2025_2_people_shot_and_killed/

I'm pretty sure it's them.


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https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/first-court-of-appeals/2015/01-14-00578-cr.html
https://abc13.com/post/car-crash-leads-to-discovery-of-counterfeit-cash/1228633/

Just because they were wearing masks and pretended to be cops, doesn't mean they were cops or ICE. Houston has numerous police impersonator cases.

[Sneederbunk]

17. Tnx. Good catch.

[sop]

3. Mass shootings during Mass.

Jesus wept - John 11:35

[ultralite001]

42. Don't think this was what Jesus meant when he said,

"Suffer the children"...

Matthew 19:14 (KJV)

[durablend]

5. No worries

They'll find *some* small shred of evidence that he was somehow favoring the left.

[rampartd]

16. i'm sure his drag photos, or an ai generated facsimile, have been posted on 4 chan

[caraher]

23. They won't have to try hard

From the link in the OP:

Another video posted to YouTube in the hours before the massacre showed off a cache of weapons — including a semi-automatic rifle and a shotgun.

Magazines were scrawled with “for the children” and “kill Donald Trump.”

[underpants]

27. They'll go with the transgender element

See down thread.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

44. Yes..they went after the mom for signing off on her gender name change at age 17

[OC375]

6. Robin Westman

Some places have started to report that Robin Westman was Robert Westman in another life (until 2020), had a manifesto, etc... I'm sure this will be red meat for some folks, if accurate. I generally don't put a lot of stock in the first 48 hours of tragedy reporting anymore.

[PatSeg]

20. Good point

A big percentage of what we hear immediately following such tragedy ends up being changed later.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Why do they all have a manifesto?

[SoFlaBro]

8. GPT cranks them shits out faster than a motherfucking candy factory assembly line.

[underpants]

30. They want to be remembered. They want to outdo all the others.

I think that’s what the Vegas shooter was doing. “I’ll show THEM how to do this!! type sad thing.

He (transgender so you know who will run with that) wanted to make a name for himself. At 20, he didn’t see his life being anything. Not an excuse of course but algorithms can drown you into brainwashing yourself.

[bucolic_frolic]

31. Society hammers us all into emotional codependence from Day One

Please the parents, church, school, teachers, marketers, peers ......... we are less important than TV commercials. That's where these soul-less, weak, manipulated cretins begin and reside. I can imagine this is worse today than 40 years ago, and it was bad back then.

[Innocent Smith]

34. He posted on YouTube where you can see it

YouTube took it down but it is all over social media.

[leftstreet]

9. Did no one in his life notice he was nutz?

Amassing weapons, writing manifestos JFC

Family, friends, colleagues, teachers, neighbors?

I wager their are several people who knew him, watching the news and thinking 'wow I'm not surprised.'

[Seeking Serenity]

11. Why is everyone misgendering her?

That's not cool. Robin legally changed her name from Robert, that her parents (or at least her mom) signed off on because she was a minor at the time, because she wanted a name that better fit her gender.

[leftstreet]

12. Stop scolding. Lots of people didn't know that

Hadn't seen it anywhere on DU

[hlthe2b]

26. Exactly. It JUST happened. We have to let those details be reported and for readers to respond accordingly. Geebus.

I think those suffering at the hands of this person need a little consideration first, and then one can criticize if the media (and others) don't respond appropriately to the confirmed, detailed facts surrounding the accused.

But, yes, it is the VICTIMS I am concerned with. Right now, I don't give a GD how one refers to the monster that killed these children. That will come, but right now, I am still just horrified as hell--as, I would think, would be EVERYONE.

[ForgedCrank]

14. Please, folks,

there are more than enough reasons for us to hate each other to go around.

[GusBob]

15. Not cool?

A church full of kids was shot up!

[maxsolomon]

18. That a mass murderer of children is a Transwoman is what the RW is already seizing on

to deflect from the horror of unregulated high powered firearms.

None of us knew of the name change prior to your post. I have a CIS-male friend named Robin.

[Redleg]

19. The news is still trickling out. Some of us don't know all the facts.

And maybe never will.

[hamsterjill]

21. To me, the gender issue is nothing.

I don’t care what he/she/they were going through. There is no excuse to kill little kids.

Sorry to state the obvious, but we need to stick to the basics before we start making ANY excuses. Not suggesting that you are trying to make excuses. Just hope that doesn’t happen any time by our side.

This person is a cold blooded killer. Full stop.

[ForgedCrank]

25. You are right.

We shouldn't be making excuses ever. And this knee-jerk thing about running for the sources to see if we can blame it on Trump or Biden (or whoever) is just as sick.
No human in their right mind does this. There is no trend in their politics when this stuff happens. It's damn near an even split right v/s left. But what is a trend is that the subject of their perceived injustice is almost always political.
Where do they learn to hate others so badly that they would go out and do this?
THAT should be our focus.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

22. First heard for me that the shooter is transgender...

But assuming it's true, and I have no reason to doubt what you're saying, any inadvertent misgendering is near the bottom of the list of important things at this point, IMO.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

45. It wasnt initially reported..it was "he" all over the news

[NutmegYankee]

56. As someone who knew well a victim of a mass shooter, I honestly don't give a fuck.

IT Murdered Children. It should not be given any human dignities because it doesn't deserve to be considered human. It is a monster.

It's name should never be repeated again. No one should ever care what it was once called.

[BlueTsunami2018]

24. The fascists are going to have a field day with this.

The ghouls will be railing even harder against the trans community. Terrible all around.

[Greg_In_SF]

28. They already are!

They are bringing up previous shootings involving trans people: Colorado Springs, Denver, Aberdeen, Nashville, Uvalde, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Houston, and Rockville.

[obamanut2012]

33. Which of those were trans shooters?

Because your list sure as hell aren't all trans folks.

[Greg_In_SF]

36. I don't believe

the Uvalde and Philadelphia ones were.

[SouthBayDem]

37. then why post such an accusatory list then? nt

[Greg_In_SF]

39. If you go back

you will clearly see that I was posting what "they" are saying. Can't imagine how that would be unclear.

And, 7 out of 9 is concerning to say the least.

[obamanut2012]

40. You very clearly implied that

Whether you meant to or not:

"They are bringing up previous shootings involving trans people: Colorado Springs, Denver, Aberdeen, Nashville, Uvalde, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Houston, and Rockville."

If you had said the following, it would have been clear:

They keep bringing up previous shootings that didn't even involve trans folks, such as .....

[obamanut2012]

47. Wtf are you saying

[Greg_In_SF]

49. What are

you asking?

[obamanut2012]

50. You know what I was asking

And you know why your post was removed.

DU does not allow transphobia, as are RW claims that Uvalde and other mass shootings are hoaxes. Which si what your removed post said.

[maxsolomon]

38. I copied this list from a RW asshole on another discussion board:

Audrey Elizabeth Hale (Nashville, Tennessee, March 2023): Identified as transgender, Hale killed six people at The Covenant School.
Alec McKinney (Denver, Colorado, May 2019): A transgender teenager involved in a school shooting that killed one person and injured eight.
Snochia Moseley (Aberdeen, Maryland, September 2018): Identified as transgender, Moseley killed four people, including themselves, at a Rite Aid.
Anderson Lee Aldrich (Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 2022), who killed five at an LGBTQ nightclub.

There have been a few. Being MTF Trans doesn't mean you're exempted from this malaise.

[niyad]

52. Four. out of several thousand since Columbine.

[maxsolomon]

54. Yep. 5 now, purportedly.

The idea that being trans is in any way causal is offensive.

But that's where we are: anything that can be utilized to deflect from the guns is, immediately.

[niyad]

55. Sadly true.

[SheltieLover]

29. OMG! Another one?

Isn't it a shame scrotus cannot read "well regulated militia" in the 2nd Amendment?

[SouthBayDem]

35. New York Post is a variant of Fox News

Same ownership, same slanted clickbait

[underpants]

53. That's true but they have contacts with cops like the British paparazzi

[DET]

46. Be Careful

The comments on that NYPost article are sickening. No mention of guns at all; just ‘Trump derangement syndrome’, evil Democrats, transgendered people, etc. The right wing is out in force.

[obamanut2012]

48. Some on this thread, too

Blaming lgbt and saying Uvalde was a hoax.

[OC375]

51. KMFDM...

...is/was a German band. The letters stand for (roughly) "no pity for the majority". Saw that in one of the photos/videos the shooter allegedly posted. I haven't seen that referenced since Columbine, and I suspect it's a reference to that tragedy given the context. Please note, the band KMFDM had nothing to do with Columbine.