Facts About The Shooting in Catholic School-Church in Minn.Analysis
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| The shooting at Annunciation Catholic School caused victims to continue to be hospitalized.Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times |
The shooter visited the site within the last three months as part of the planning for the attack, a senior law enforcement official said on Thursday. He attended to the church and school and his mother worked and retired from the church. The mother said her son told her he was trans or that he thought he was a girl.
Analysis by Adam: In every school shooting you have the shooters coming from the inside, meaning they attended the school in the past or present or otherwise had connections to the school. Making windows and door stronger does not help if the shooter is know by the school and will either get access by being
let in or knowing the flaws in the system he could exploit. So I ask, Why do the schools do not implement a strict security protocol for who gets in.
The remainder of the killers will be bred in the school. Trying to figure out the motives whether real or imagined that push this young guy to become a killer. But I ask can you imagine if in deed he identified as trans the calls and and abuse he most've taken by his school mates when he was attending.
Hatred that was probably flourished by what his government of Trump and the church say about him. He demonstrated a wish to kill Trump but security making it very hard he instead went for the defenseless, for those that could not defend themselves. What about the security of the school? If my kid was going to that school I will be asking that question. And actually this investigation is taking too long which could make others like this killer start thinking the wrong thoughts. Instead of being in television I would be asking this church how he got into the school? Was the shooting was in both church or school or just either one?
The parents which are the only ones at the moment the police and politicians will listen to now I will be asking questions. If this killer had a manifesto telling what he was going to do and he posted it on the internet, why nobody become the wiser? His mother I don't want to even touch into that. She lost a son but what's up with all those guns he had. Yes he was over 21 but how about "You can't live under my roof with all those guns." The responsibility touches many and they are alive and kicking. Anyone who attacks the imagined sexuality of this killer bares responsibility for him to feel like he did. He cried for help on the internet. Nobody listened. If we let this go as another shooting with is the way is going it will happen again.
New York Times source:
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation, disclosed the visit as investigators pored over surveillance video of the attack, as well as writings and videos by the suspect, which revealed a litany of grievances and an obsession with school shooters, law enforcement officials said.
“The shooter left behind hundreds of pages of writings, writings that describe the shooter’s plan, writings that describe the shooter’s mental state and, more than anything, writings that describe the shooter’s hate — pure, indiscriminate hate,” Joseph H. Thompson, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, said at a news conference on Thursday afternoon.
But he added, “More than anything, the shooter wanted to kill children — defenseless children. The shooter was obsessed with the idea of killing children.”
The suspect, Robin Westman, 23, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the police said. According to court papers, when the suspect was 17, she identified as female and legally changed her name to Robin from Robert. Investigators said she was a former student at the school, where her mother once worked.
Brian O’Hara, the Minneapolis police chief, said on Thursday that the attacker had tried to get inside the church, but the doors were locked after the Mass began, a longstanding school practice that probably saved lives. Unable to enter, the shooter fired into the church through narrow windows.
Investigators who combed the church grounds recovered three shotgun shells, 116 rifle rounds and one live round from the shooter’s handgun, which appeared to have jammed, Chief O’Hara said. The three guns were legally purchased, he said.
Chief O’Hara said that investigators have not identified a “triggering event” or a specific grievance against the church.
Here’s what else to know:
Church community: The shooting has brought a tragic spotlight to a busy urban parish that much preferred being locally famous for its Wiffle ball field and its annual SeptemberFest. And it has pushed into action a support network at the church that, one member said, had long functioned as a sort of small town within Minneapolis. Read more ›
The suspect: Parts of the suspect’s journal, posted on YouTube, included clues that the shooting had been planned in advance, including a detailed drawing of the church’s interior. Her social media accounts also included antisemitic and racist language, threats against President Trump, transgender flags and the slogan “Defend Equality.” Officials added that the suspect had no criminal record or history of state-ordered mental health treatment.
Wounded patients: Nine gunshot victims remain at Hennepin County Medical Center, hospital officials said on Thursday. Five are children in stable condition. One adult and one child are in serious condition, and one child is in critical condition. Three other children remain at Children’s Minnesota, a Minneapolis hospital with a trauma center.
School-year anxiety: The attack in Minneapolis brought to life many parents’ worst nightmare, days into the new school year, and before school has even begun in some parts of the country. Though mass shootings at schools remain rare, at least 250 people were injured or killed on school grounds in each of the last three years, the highest number on record, according to a database on school shootings
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