MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Chaos and terror erupted inside a Minneapolis Catholic church on Wednesday morning as a gunman opened fire through stained glass windows, killing two children and injuring more than a dozen others during a back-to-school Mass.
The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, a biological female who identified as male, graduated from Annunciation Catholic School in 2017, according to police sources. Westman died at the scene after being confronted by responding officers just minutes after the attack began.
Mr. Westman left an online manifesto filled with anti-Jewish messaging and anti-Donald Trump writings on his rifle’s magazine. Other magazines had racial slurs against blacks and Hispanics.
The shooting unfolded shortly after 8 a.m. as nearly 100 students, staff,