RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen children sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the school and had been a member of the church, the city's police chief said.
Authorities were pouring over videos, writings and movements of the shooter but remained uncertain what motivated 23-year-old Robin Westman to open fire through stained-glass windows as children celebrated Mass on the first week of classes at the Annunciation Catholic School.
“Everything we’ve seen so far is a classic pathway to an active shooter,” Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said on NBC’s “TODAY” show Thursday, adding police have seen nothing “specific to trigger the amount of hate that occurred yesterday.”
Investigators have rec