YouTube videos posted to coincide with the shooting showed reverence for other mass shooters, and gun magazines scrawled with “Kill Donald Trump” and racial slurs.
According to SaedNews, law enforcement officials say the person who opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis posted disturbing videos and left written messages on weapons that praised previous mass killers and included explicit threats and slurs — evidence investigators are treating as they probe motive and possible hate-based intent.
Police identified the attacker as 23-year-old Robin Westman; the assault, which began during morning Mass, left two children dead and at least 17 others wounded before the gunman died of a self-inflicted wound, authorities said.
People stand outside the church where a shooter killed two children in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Investigators recovered videos that were uploaded to coincide with the attack and a notebook and journals that, according to search warrants, include references to past school attacks and material suggesting a fixation on mass shooters. Some magazines and weapons were marked with political and racial slurs and the phrase “Kill Donald Trump,” according to law enforcement and reporting.
FBI officials are assisting local prosecutors and treating the case as an act of domestic terrorism and a possible hate crime against Catholics, while searches of residences and digital accounts continue as investigators piece together motive and planning.
Local communities and school leaders called for calm and support for victims’ families as authorities urged anyone with information or archived copies of the removed videos to come forward to help the investigation.
