Active shooter 'guns down TWENTY people at Minneapolis church'

Gas Snake · Aug 28, 2025

TaimuRadiu said:
Prove me wrong on any of that lol

I would NEVER challenge your knowledge of homosexuals

thx1138 · Aug 28, 2025

Stephen King now he's the guy who wrote the one book where 8 year olds have a gang bang in a sewer, right?

clipartfan92 · Aug 28, 2025

Live: Minneapolis works to heal in the wake of fatal church shooting
The Minnesota Star Tribune (archive.ph)
By Star Tribune staff
2025-08-28 16:15:19GMT

Minneapolis families are still waiting for answers as more details are revealed about the suspected shooter who gunned down children attending Catholic school Mass this week.

Two children died and 17 other people, mostly juveniles, were shot and injured in a mass shooting Wednesday morning that came on the heels of other Twin Cities high-profile acts of violence.

The reported school shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene, according to police. But not much has been said publicly about any other clues as to why the school was targeted.
Here’s what we know so far:

Two children killed, shooter also dead
17 others injured, 14 of them children
Shooter identified as Robin Westman
Westman formerly attended Annunciation Catholic School, and Westman’s mother used to work at the church
Videos posted by Westman glorify mass shooters

Follow live updates below:

11:12 a.m. - Nine victims of the Annunciation Church shooting remained at HCMC in Minneapolis Thursday morning, including five children. One adult and one child were in serious condition and one child remained in critical condition.

One patient had already been discharged and HCMC officials hoped another one or two would go home today. HCMC officials offered an update Thursday morning in the same conference room which was used as a makeshift reunification center where family members arrived to learned the status of injured children. Dr. Jon Gayken, a trauma surgeon, said there were many moments when HCMC hospital and EMS workers went to great lengths to comfort the injured and scared children, including a nurse manager who ordinarily wouldn’t be involved in trauma response.
— Jeremy Olson

10:55 a.m. - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that the National Institutes of Health plans to study the effects of antidepressant medications and their warnings about suicidal and homicidal ideation, following the shooting at Annunciation Church.

Speaking on “Fox & Friends,” Kennedy sidestepped a question from co-host Brian Kilmeade about gender-affirming care in connection with suspect Robin Westman, instead focusing on antidepressants. There is no public indication that Westman was taking such medications.

“We can’t exclude those as a culprit,” Kennedy said. “We’re launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.”

Kennedy added, “This kind of violence is very recent.”

Sen. Tina Smith responded to Kennedy on social media.

“I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do,” Smith said in a post on X responding to a clip of Kennedy on Fox & Friends. “Just shut up.”
— Emmy Martin

10:40 a.m. - Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Thursday the practice of locking the doors when morning Mass began at Annunciation Church on Wednesday likely prevented further tragedy, forcing suspected shooter Robin Westman to fire from outside.

“Due to the procedures that the school had in place, that the church had in place, after the mass had begun, the doors to the church were locked,” he told NBC’s “Today."

“This coward had to fire from outside of the church through the church windows and into the church, and we believe him not being able to get into the church likely saved countless lives.”

O’Hara added that authorities have so far seen “nothing specific to point to as the motive for targeting this church in this particular incident.”
— Abby Simons

10:25 a.m. - DFL State Rep. Emma Greenman appeared on CNN this morning and urged lawmakers to get “these weapons of war off our streets.”

Greenman, whose district includes Annunciation Church and School, added that the two children who were killed “won’t have a future at all because adults have failed to prioritize their protection over guns.” She added: “ I think we have to expect more from Congress. I think we need to expect more at the state and local level. And in a democracy, it’s going to take all of us, not just the elected officials. People elect us and they should expect, demand, and work with us to ensure that we are keeping folks safe every day.”
— Paul Walsh

10:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - Dan Beazley, of Northville, Mich., discusses his history of bringing a large wooden cross he constructed to the sites of tragedies, including school shootings and natural disasters.
— Louis Krauss

https://pomf2.lain.la/f/7dsxx4r2.mp4 (archive.org)

10:07 a.m. - Children’s Minnesota said in a statement Thursday morning: “As of this morning, three children remain in our Minneapolis hospital for care as a result of Wednesday’s tragic incident at Annunciation Church. Four patients were treated and discharged yesterday. We will not share more details to respect the privacy of our patients and families.”
— Eleanor Hildebrandt

9:18 a.m. - Seven of the tall stained glass windows on the east side of the church are covered up with plywood.
— Louis Krauss

Stained glass windows at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis. (Louis Krauss)

8:42 a.m. - Bells ring out Thursday morning at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, a day after two students were killed and many others were wounded in a shooting.

— Liz Flores

8:30 a.m. - The community’s response to so much cruelty was kindness. Neighbors wrapped the trees around Annunciation in fluttering ribbons. Strangers stood vigil in Lynnhurst Park with candles in their hands and tears on their cheeks.

Restaurants donated mountains of food to feed thousands of mourners. Friends will be organizing meal trains for traumatized families for weeks to come.

Read the full column here.
— Jennifer Brooks

8 a.m. - Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told NBC’s “Today” that authorities recovered hundreds of pieces of evidence after executing four search warrants related to the shooting. Police did not find any additional weapons during the searches, O’Hara said.

“There is some additional writings, I would say, that the FBI is helping us go through,” O’Hara said, adding that authorities would likely seek electronic search warrants to examine devices.
— David Taintor

Crosses with handwritten messages stand outside Annunciation School on Thursday. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

7:45 a.m. - Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said she has had it with some of her Senate colleagues who won’t take action that could possibly prevent school shootings like those at Annunciation Catholic Church and School Wednesday in Minneapolis.

“I am so tired of some of my colleagues who won’t stand up and vote for some stricter national gun standards,” Klobuchar said during an appearance on MSNBC’s show “Morning Joe.” “I have personally just about had it. You could imagine that could be your kid in that church, your kid in that school, and it’s by grace of God it wasn’t.”

Klobuchar praised church and school leaders as heroes who saved lives, and even older kids who helped save the lives of younger kids.
— Tim Harlow

7:25 a.m. - A family is sharing the story of his 12-year-old daughter being severely wounded by Wednesday’s gunfire at Annunciation Catholic Church and School.

Seventh-grader Sophia Forchas remains hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday night, according to an online fundraising campaign signed by Tom Forchas, her father, and a second supporter to help the family with medical and other expenses.

Also at the scene at the time was Sophia’s younger brother, Anthony, the father disclosed. The fundraising campaign includes a photo of Sophia and Anthony, a fourth-grader, together outside the school and wearing their uniforms and big smiles. “Though he was physically unharmed,” the posting continued, “the trauma of witnessing such a terrifying event — and knowing his sister was critically injured — is something no child should ever experience.”

Anthony and Sophia Forchas. (GoFundMe)

As it turned out, according to the posting, Sophia’s mother, Amy Forchas, is a pediatric critical care nurse who reported for work in response to the shooting “before knowing it was her children’s school that was attacked and that her daughter was critically injured.” The campaign did not reveal which hospital is caring for Sophia.
— Paul Walsh

7:10 a.m. - The horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church is prompting parents in Minnesota to have more conversations — tough, awkward and painful — about the time and place in which we live.

So, what do we say now to our kids, and how do we say it? Just as most Minnesota children and teens are returning to the classroom, here are some tips for how to connect with them in the wake of mass violence in our own community.

Read the tips on how to talk to children about the violence here.
— Laura Yuen

7:05 a.m. - Minnesota officials are expected to hold a press briefing at 1 p.m. today at Minneapolis City Hall. The event is intended to call for increased gun control measures. According to the city, the following officials will attend:

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar
State Sen. Zaynab Mohamed
State Rep. Emma Greenman
Members of the Minnesota chapter of Moms Demand Action
Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of the Moms Demand Action
Maggiy Emery, executive director of Protect Minnesota

— David Taintor

“Somebody is waking up without their baby today," says Holly Marshall, right, as she hugs Pari Chart outside Annunciation Church on Thursday. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

7:02 a.m. - One adult and five children remain in critical condition at HCMC in downtown Minneapolis, the hospital said. Additionally, one adult and three children are being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
— Tim Harlow

7 a.m. - During a vigil Wednesday evening at the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said there would be interfaith services at the Cathedral of St. Paul on Thursday and at the Basilica of St. Mary.

Hundreds of people packed the gym at Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, for a memorial prayer service for the Annunciation Catholic School victims. (Jennifer Brooks/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
— Jennifer Brooks

7 a.m. - More is being revealed about suspected shooter Robin Westman. Westman attended Annunciation Catholic School and graduated from eighth grade in 2017. After that, Westman spent the next few years jumping from school to school.

While attending St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, Westman wrote an ode to death in which Westman worried about meeting the end filled with “regrets that my name not be known for something more.”

Westman’s name was legally changed to Robin M. Westman in 2020, with court records showing Westman’s mother sought the change because her son “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

But it’s unclear what gender Westman identified with recently.

Read more about Westman’s background.
— Jeffrey Meitrodt

6:30 a.m. - Local police have confirmed that Westman created YouTube videos that were posted Wednesday near the time of the shooting. In the videos, a person, whose face is not shown, seemed to outline plans for the shootings at Annunciation Church.

The videos, which include racist, antisemitic and anti-Christian phrases and symbols, repeatedly reference mass killers.

Read more about the videos.

— Walker Orenstein and Deena Winter

6:20 a.m. - According to police, Westman, who had no criminal record, legally purchased the rifle, pistol and shotgun used in Wednesday morning’s shooting.

Read more about how Westman didn’t violate laws in purchasing the weapons.
— Deena Winter and Paul Walsh

6:00 a.m. - During a Target Center show Wednesday night, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda referenced the shooting by first mentioning how the group’s new album was “about picking up after a tragedy.”

“There was a tragedy in this city today,” he said. “We want to dedicate our set tonight to the loving, strong, resilient city of Minneapolis. We hope a positive night of music can bring the city together during a dark time.”
Read more about the concert.
— Chris Riemenschneider

5:30 a.m. - President Donald Trump has ordered American flags throughout the country to be flown at half-staff at “all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government.”

Westman’s name was legally changed to Robin M. Westman in 2020, with court records showing Westman’s mother sought the change because her son “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

But it’s unclear what gender Westman identified with recently.

Fuck these journalists.

For Scorn and Three Birds · Aug 28, 2025

Shitoko said:
@For Scorn and Three Birds OWS happened for 2 months, 14 years ago in 2011. Shit took 5 or 6 years to fully take off with the SJW vs Anti-SJW tumblr vs 4cuck stuff.

Yea, activism takes time to set up. Soros did not just pick up a phone and the next day troons are a plague. It was a plan set over years, when they realised that these fucking retards could be their version of a useful idiot. Numerous interested groups adopted the tactics of spreading/promoting/embracing this contagion. Hillary saw them as a way to get her decrepit old ass in to the POTUS chair for instance. Other groups used it in other ways to get policy they favoured through. Remember that lynching law that was connected to Jucey Smoolays fake hate crime?
Democrats have used them for years, till they fucked up with prioritizing tranny bathrooms and abortions over the price of food, resulting in a backlash that the right wing capitalized on.
They have only recently lost control of them, thanks to their SJ progressive stack shit equating Jews=White Oppressor. And the exposure of these Billionaire activists to the mainstream. JD Vance calling out Soros by name for meddling, put a lot of them on the backfoot and the major pushback of woke rebrands, infiltration in hobby's and other set backs they have had.
More of the loon ones are starting to crack and you get troons like this monster doing what he did.

Jace on ice · Aug 28, 2025

"It's cool bro just some 8 year olds getting shot in the face and not a real crime like misgendering."

Why are they like this man?

jaryan patriot · Aug 28, 2025

Shitoko said:
I asked because I suck at debating and have constant brainfog, and it seems I got another nothingburger take.
I wanna see real/true takes, real peer-reviewed studies fact-checked by snopes, not the same unresearched shit parroted in this echo chamber.

99% of the human population is cis (8,019,000,000 people), 0.00016% of all cis people are mass shooters (12,830 people)
0.6% of the human population are Trannies (48,600,000 people), 0.00000823% of all trannies are mass shooters (667 people)
Even then, cis people have more mass shooters than trannies have mass shooters.

The term "mass shooting" either refers to Tyrone getting run up on by Daquan, which happens thousands of times a year, or to a 90 IQ autist groomed on discord posting their epic manifesto online then doing a rampage shooting, which happens maybe 2-5 times per year.

If you do the second definition, just a single transgender shooter per year would make them wildly overrepresented.

That being said, it's not like they shoot up a school because they were transgender. They were transgender because they were the type to shoot up a school.

Shitoko · Aug 28, 2025

Jace on ice said:
"It's cool bro just some 8 year olds getting shot in the face and not a real crime like misgendering."

Why are they like this man?

Narcissism, self-hatred disguised as self-love, self-entitlement, authorities and non-bigoted people being too permissive of them, the list goes on.
Many trannies on tiktok will counterpoint bigotry and racism with shit like "Bro just have some empathy

" despite what they're meaning not even being empathy, but rather sympathy and/or compassion.
Do trannies even understand what Empathy is? Like, how the fuck can you empathise with/have empathy for a 6 year old in Gaza or an Auschwitz prisoner?

AncientPhosphur · Aug 28, 2025

I can’t wait until one of these loser freaks targets a gun free zone I’m in because they think everyone will be disarmed just for them to discover I don’t believe in gun free zones

Levitcus prime24 · Aug 28, 2025

Gas Snake said:
Who raped you?
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Please stick to your area of expertise
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Why are eurofags and Austrians always the stupidest?

Shitoko · Aug 28, 2025

jaryan patriot said:
The term "mass shooting" either refers to Tyrone getting run up on by Daquan, which happens thousands of times a year, or to a 90 IQ autist groomed on discord posting their epic manifesto online then doing a rampage shooting, which happens maybe 2-5 times per year.

If you do the second definition, just a single transgender shooter per year would make them wildly overrepresented.

That being said, it's not like they shoot up a school because they were transgender. They were transgender because they were the type to shoot up a school.

In the sources I have compiled, it would seem that unfortunately us cisARYANs are overrepresented in the case of mass shooters than trannies are.

Catch The Rainbow · Aug 28, 2025

after reading more, I think that the shooting is less about tranny rage and more of a consequence of 764/O9A grooming to a mentally ill person. Trannies are obviously mentally ill but we need to look at our society with how nihilistic groups like these are gaining traction. These shootings are just the well known cases, the groups have caused multiple self harming incidents/suicides. They're not political in any way, they just are chaos agents taking advantage of weak people to cause violence.

Arguing about the shooter being transgender or the politics on the gun is beyond the point and distracts us from understanding why these cults are so popular.

For Scorn and Three Birds · Aug 28, 2025

Catch The Rainbow said:
after reading more, I think that the shooting is less about tranny rage and more of a consequence of 764/O9A grooming to a mentally ill person. Trannies are obviously mentally ill but we need to look at our society with how nihilistic groups like these are gaining traction. These shootings are just the well known cases, the groups have caused multiple self harming incidents/suicides. They're not political in any way, they just are chaos agents taking advantage of weak people to cause violence.

Arguing about the shooter being transgender or the politics on the gun is beyond the point and distracts us from understanding why these cults are so popular.

The connection to 764 is not confirmed in any way. It was a bait account troll, read the thread.

clipartfan92 · Aug 28, 2025

Manifesto, videos from Minneapolis suspect praised mass killers, fixated on school shootings
The Minnesota Star Tribune (archive.ph)
By Walker Orenstein and Deena Winter
2025-08-28 02:12:36GMT

A SWAT officer walks past the east side of Annunciation Church where a shooter shot through the building, killing two children and wounding 17 others Wednesday in Minneapolis. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The shooter who opened fire on the Minneapolis Catholic school children while they attended a church service published two videos before the Wednesday attack in which someone stabs a drawing of the inside of a church with a knife, glorifies mass killers and fixates on school shootings.

The videos were posted to YouTube by an account attributed to Robin Westman and include racist, antisemitic and anti-Christian phrases and symbols, as well as calls to kill President Donald Trump and destroy the state of Israel.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara said police are still trying to determine a motive for the attack that killed two children and injured 17 other children and adults.

O’Hara confirmed that the videos were posted by Westman, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene.

The person, whose face is not shown in the videos, seemed to outline plans for the shootings at Annunciation Church.

“I can’t wait to kill and kill and kill and kill,” the person says repeatedly in one roughly 20-minute video. Another frequent refrain: “I fall apart, I break and I die.”

In another video, a person displays four guns, a bevy of ammunition, a letter to family and friends, and clothing the narrator apparently planned to wear “tomorrow.”

Both videos repeatedly reference mass killers. In one, the person labeled guns and weapon magazines on a bed with the names of at least 10 mass killers, including the mosque shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand, an extremist attacker in Norway, and the man who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Other names on the weapons appear to refer to the Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho and the siege of a religious compound in Waco, Texas, two incidents that to many anti-government extremists symbolize government violence.

“There is no message,” reads a note written in white on a black handgun.

The videos include an array of political ideology and extremist views. In one, the person shows off a canister labeled with the name of a man who bombed a fertility clinic in Florida this year, as well as the phrase “Jew gas.” A wooden plank with another canister and similar phrases referring to online memes about marijuana and internet trolls.

One gun magazine read “kill Donald Trump.” Another said: “I’m the woker, why so queerious?” That is an apparent play on the villainous character the Joker from “Batman.”

The person invoked the names of a multinational investment company, an oil company and a beer company, as well as a Second Amendment activist running for Congress in Texas. (That activist denounced the killings on social media.)

There are references to a pedophile and a rapist, and hostility about Christianity, including the image of Jesus on a shooting target and phrases scrawled on the guns, such as “Where’s your God now?”

At one point in the videos, the person says: “Nothing makes me want to stop my plans.”

Symbols, stickers and Cyrillic
The videos are also full of stickers, symbols, drawings and handwriting in English and what appears to be the Cyrillic alphabet.

One sticker is for a German band that has been cited by other school shooters, according to CNN. (The band told that news outlet last year that its music stands against violence.)

Another sticker says “Defend Equality” with a machine gun overlaid on a pride flag, and many stickers depict the video game character Luigi. That could be a reference to Luigi Mangione, the man charged with killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare last year.

There are drawings of guns, including one pointing at a face that the person in the video stabs with a knife. Beneath the person’s books is a diagram of gun parts along with the handgun label for a Ruger Mark IV.

There’s also a drawing of a person with a long gun strapped to their back and a pistol on their hip looking into a bathroom mirror. The reflection in the mirror is a horned creature.

Some of the writings are dated, as if they are journal entries, starting in late May and running through this month.

Giulia Dossi, a visiting assistant professor of Russian language and area studies at St. Olaf College, verified the transliteration of the writings scribbled in the Cyrillic alphabet, which sounds like English when read out loud. A few Russian words are sprinkled into the writing.

The writings, like other things in the videos, show fascination and reverence for school shooters, particularly Adam Lanza, who murdered children at Sandy Hook elementary in Connecticut.

The message says Sandy Hook was Westman’s first exposure to school shootings and that Westman likes “shooters who know what they are doing” and plan for “violence and mass death.”

Westman’s apparent writings also show a racist admiration for mass killers who targeted Black people, such as Dylann Roof, the Charleston, S.C., gunman.

But the writing displays a favoritism for school shootings because he loves “the awful slaughter of innocents.”

“All these events and stories have only fueled a fire in me to do it right,” the journal said.

Victor Stefanscu and Dana Chiueh of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this story.

Video links in this post.

Shoulda Woulda Coulda · Aug 28, 2025

I think a lot of discussion about what politics the shooter had kind of miss the point. His actual ideology is probably much simpler: he was demonically evil and he targeted children worshipping in church out of a desire to harm the innocent and sacred. All of the seemingly contradictory extremist symbols were never about any coherent set of ideas but simply because the perpetrator got a sick sense of gratification from being transgressive and horrifying people. It was an anti-Catholic/Christian hate crime motivated by the shooter's hatred of God.

Jace on ice · Aug 28, 2025

Jesus Christ reddit.

DickMain · Aug 28, 2025

Shitoko said:
97.3% of Americans are cisgender (325.8 million people), 2.7% of Americans are non-cis trannies (9 million people)
0.0006% of Cisgender in America are/were mass shooters (2010 people), 0.00001106% of non-cis trannies in America (1 single person, somehow)
Fuck these sources I'm peer-reviewing right now seem to get more biased and worse over time.

'Cis' isn't even a real thing, just another bullshit phrase they made up to confuse matters. You're straight, a faggot, or a faggot in drag. 'Cisgender' more like 'sissyboys' are just making words up.

You can tell it's a bullshit phrase just in how they use it. It's never just ''cis male", it's 'cis white male'. I have not once in my life heard this crap used in a sentence without referring to straight white people in a snide manner. Never heard of a 'cis [nonwhite race here]' person. I'm not attempting to make it an argument of race, but 'cis' is just a magic codeword they throw around when they want to pick on whitey like the good self-hating redditors they believe themselves to be.

Shitoko · Aug 28, 2025

Is there a counterargument for why LGBTQ+ representation shouldn't be in children's media, even trivial ones such as in Gravity Falls?

Levitcus prime24 · Aug 28, 2025

Shitoko said:
True, but not all transphobes are crazed child-murders. Most trans people are actually normal people living their lives who don't want any attention. Like literally only 0.6% of people on earth identify as trans.

There are over 8 billion people on earth and only 49.4 million of them are trans. They really aren't gonna take over the world man.

Eww a normie has infected this site.

Catch The Rainbow · Aug 28, 2025

For Scorn and Three Birds said:
The connection to 764 is not confirmed in any way. It was a bait account troll, read the thread.

The connection is obvious in the journal with references to drill sgt grey and such

Shitoko · Aug 28, 2025

Levitcus prime24 said:
Eww a normie has infected this site.

Wow Kiwifarms users really are autistic, so autistic that they fall for obvious bait.

Active shooter 'guns down TWENTY people at Minneapolis church'