MINNEAPOLIS – Investigators are analyzing evidence they hope will provide insight into what motivated a 23-year-old to open fire on a church filled with schoolchildren, killing two young students and injuring 18 others during a back-to-school Mass.

Joseph Thompson, the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, said at a news conference Aug. 28 that the evidence includes hundreds of pages of writing in which the shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, details plans for the attack, praises other mass shooters and expresses "hate towards almost every group imaginable."

"In short, the shooter appeared to hate all of us," said Thompson, calling the writings "horrific" and "vile." He added that the attacker "was obsessed with the idea of killing children" and "saw the attack as a way

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