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Transgender maniac shoots up Catholic school morning Mass, killing two kids

EMILY CRANE, JOE MARINO, CHRIS NESI and ANNA YOUNG

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A mother comforts her son outside Annunciation Catholic School and church in Minneapolis yesterday, where Robin Westman, a transgender 23-year-old who railed against Jews and President Trump while praising school shooters, opened fire into morning Mass, killing two children and wounding 14 others.

MINNEAPOLIS — At least two children were killed and 17 people injured after a demonic transgender gunman opened fire on Catholic-school kids in Minneapolis Wednesday — barricading the doors and unleashing hell as students were praying during a back-to-school Mass.

Robin Westman — wielding a rifle, shotgun and pistol — approached the side of the Annunciation Catholic Church and started firing through the stained-glass windows, striking scores of children praying in the pews just before 8:30 a.m., police and officials said.

Two kids, ages 8 and 10, were killed. Fourteen students were injured, including 13-year-old Endre Gunter.

The three adult victims — parishioners in their 80s — were also attending the Mass.

Gunter was shot in the stomach during the massacre, underwent surgery, and is now recovering, his shaken mother said in a statement to CNN.

All of the wounded victims are expected to survive, officials said later Wednesday.

The 23-year-old gunman, who identified as a transgender woman, espoused vile antisemitism and a desire to murder President Trump and Elon Musk in a deranged manifesto timed to post on YouTube to coincide with the massacre, police said.

In his screed, he specifically mused about committing a mass murder at an event at Annunciation, evilly relishing the thought of “being that scary horrible monster standing over those powerless kids.”

Westman propped a wooden plank against some of the church’s side doors in an apparent attempt to trap the students and staff inside the sanctuary as he fired shots from all three guns.

“This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping,” said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, who later noted Westman’s weapons were all purchased legally and recently. “The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible.”

Westman — who attended Annunciation as a child and whose mother, Mary Grace, was a former secretary at the school — was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the vicious assault.

Fifth-grade Annunciation student Weston Halsne told NBC News his friend Victor was shot while attempting to shield him from bullets during the Mass. The young survivor said he hid under a pew when the shooting started — just as he had learned in active-shooter drills at the school.

At least six children were treated at Children’s Minnesota Hospital — a pediatric trauma hospital, according to officials. Hennepin Healthcare, which has Minnesota’s largest emergency department, said it had received 11 patients.

An emotional Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said of the victims and their families, “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

“They should be able to go to school or church in peace without the fear of violence.”

Madman’s scrawls

Authorities haven’t yet determined a motive for the bloodshed but investigators are currently reviewing the disturbing manifesto and videos that revealed the gunman’s psychotic obsession with mass shooters.

Westman’s sick 20-minute YouTube manifesto is filmed pointof-view-style showing a hand turning pages of a red notebook laid out on top of what appears to be schematic gun diagrams.

The sloppy scrawl, written almost entirely in Cyrillic, confessed a love of violence and a lifelong obsession with mass shooters — including Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza — as well as the chilling acknowledgement, “I have had thoughts about mass murder for a long time.”

Officials said the shooter was not known to have a criminal history.

The deranged shooter’s family lives less than a mile from the school and church in a small Tudor-style home set on a quiet tree-lined street.

Neighbor Stephen Jeglosky, 35, told The Post it was “jaw-dropping” to learn of the horror Westman inflicted.

The school, located next door to the church, has classes for kindergarten through eighthgraders.

Students, who had returned to class for the fall semester just Monday, were attending an allschool Mass in the church at the time of the heinous slaughter.

The FBI said it was investigating the slaughter as domestic terrorism and a possible hate crime against Catholics.

In a heart-wrenching statement Wednesday afternoon, Church of the Annunciation said it was “navigating an impossible situation,” and thanked law enforcement and the community for their support, urging prayers for the students who remained hospitalized.

Scores of local and state police, federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents and other authorities descended on the scene after the shooting broke out.

Bill Bienemann, who lives a few blocks away and has long attended Mass at Annunciation Church, recalled hearing dozens of shots over several minutes.

“I was shocked. I said, ‘There’s no way that could be gunfire,’ ” he said. “There was so much of it. It was sporadic.”

‘Praying for our kids’

A reunification zone was set up near the school, where terrified parents arrived and tearfully shouted for their children.

Parents could be seen escorting sobbing students from the school in the aftermath.

President Trump and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz were among those briefed on the shooting early on.

“Please join me in praying for everyone involved!” Trump said on social media.

In his post, Walz said: “I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence.”

The church welcomes all-comers with a simple message above the entrance, and the words were still visible from behind the police cordon following the shooting: “This is the house of God and the gate of Heaven.”

IF ever there were an example of the perils of the Democrat approach to crime and social disorder, it is Minneapolis, ground zero of the George Floyd/defund the-police movement that roiled the country five years ago, and a “sanctuary transgender state.”

The deadly mass shooting of small children at Mass at Annunciation Catholic School Wednesday brings home the tragic cost of a disordered society, where evil rampages unchecked and those who would protect the vulnerable are handcuffed and pushed away.

It’s too early to say exactly how, or even if, the tragedy could have been prevented. Yet Minnesota Democrats already have reached for their lazy gun-control mantra, in a state that has among the strictest gun laws in the country.

Of course, they remain silent about the anti-Christian radical gender ideology that appears to have driven the latest spate of school shootings, from the murders at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., in November 2023, and at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., in December 2024, to Wednesday’s rampage.

At least we now have an FBI that tells the truth about the motivating hatreds so that we can try to understand the pathology and stop its spread.

“The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement on X after the Annunciation murders Wednesday, adding that the killer has been identified as “Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman.”

Name change

Robin Westman, 23, had his mother apply to the Minnesota District Court to legally change his name from Robert in January 2020.

“Minor child identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification,” says the court order “Granting Name Change of a Minor.”

There is no indication of what medications Westman was taking, but mental illness combined with hormone treatment and antidepressants are a recipe for rage. A YouTube “manifesto” speaks of depression and suicidal thoughts, as well as anti-Christian, anti-Jewish demonic ravings adorned with pride flags. He wrote “Kill Trump” along with anti-Israel racist messages and the names of other mass killers on his weapons and ammunition.

The increasingly violent rhetoric of the trans movement has been embraced by Minnesota’s politicians.

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a hunting knife and the slogan “Protect Trans Kids” during a 2023 press conference celebrating an executive order signed by Gov. Tim Walz to make Minnesota a “trans refuge state” for “gender-affirming” care, aka surgical and chemical castration of children. She’s now running for the US Senate.

Woke Walz earned the nickname “Tampon Tim” during his ill-fated VP run with Kamala Harris last year after he signed legislation requiring free menstrual products be provided in boys’ bathrooms for grades 4–12.

Just two days ago at a DNC meeting in Minneapolis, radical left Minnesota AG Keith Ellison boasted to a cheering audience: “We have sued Trump for gender-affirming care.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey hijacked a police press conference about the Annunciation shooting Wednesday to blast the public for what he claimed was a “whole lot of hate being directed at our trans community.”

He also sneered at anyone praying for the victims: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”

To say these public officials have lost the plot is an understatement.

Gasoline on the fire

If Walz, Frey and Ellison are familiar names to you, it’s because they played a central role in the calamity that struck a pandemic-crazed country in the summer of 2020 — the deadly BLM-Antifa riots that raged after the death of Floyd, a black drug-affected criminal, at the hands of Minnesota police.

Instead of behaving responsibly after the tragedy, these Democrat leaders poured gasoline on the fire and seemed to revel in the mayhem. Walz delayed calling out the National Guard for at least 20 hours. His wife, Gwen, weirdly spoke of keeping “the windows open as long as I could” to smell the aroma of “burning tires ... because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”

Frey ordered the Third Precinct to surrender its police station to the mob as a sort of ritual sacrifice.

Ellison railroaded Derek Chauvin and three other cops for Floyd’s death and lied that President Trump supporters were to blame for the riots.

These are people who find political profit in chaos and disorder.

It is incredible that they paid no price for the death and destruction they unleashed — which continues to this day in the form of undermanned and demoralized police forces around the country.

The Minneapolis police force has been so beaten down that it now has just 350 street cops compared to 900 before Floyd, according to former Twin Cities TV news anchor Liz Collin, who was taken off air during the 2020 riots because her husband was the police union chief.

“These cops are already really stretched to the limits,” Collin told Megyn Kelly, pointing out the Annunciation school massacre was the fourth shooting incident in Minneapolis in less than 24 hours.

If Democrats wonder why their political stock is spiraling into the death zone, they need look no further than their willful failures on urban crime and border protection.

Joe Biden, who once posed as a tough-on-crime moderate, came into the White House and immediately dismantled all the Trumpera border protections, allowing millions of illegal aliens, including rapists, child molesters, murderers and assorted gangbangers to roam free along with our homegrown criminals.

He turned a blind eye to urban crime while prioritizing the fake crises of climate change and “equity.”

In place of police, now taxpayer money was being wasted on social workers and “violence interrupters.”

All less safe

The upshot is that we all became less safe, even while Dems gaslit us about the wonderful crime stats we knew they’d faked.

Instead of admitting fault and embracing commonsense policies like more cops on the beat, Democrats are siding with criminals. New York is about to sign our own death warrant if Zohran “No Misdemeanors” Mamdani gets his way and wins the mayoralty.

But Trump’s successful DC crime crackdown puts the lie to their claims that law and order is too complex to solve with policing.

He has saved the lives of at least half a dozen people in a city that sees a murder every other day.

The capital’s almost unprecedented 12-day homicide free-streak ended early Wednesday, sadly, but there is no doubt that the streets are safer, and the most affected residents are grateful.

Since most, if not all, of the lives saved are the young black men who usually fill mortuary slabs, it’s a rich irony that the loudest critics of Trump’s law-and-order push are the same Democrats who weaponized “Black Lives Matter” into an insane movement to defund the police.

In Chicago, where Trump threatens to send the National Guard next, six people were killed last weekend alone, including a 5-year-old boy.

Don’t their lives matter?

10-yr.-old: ‘My pal saved me’

Anna Young

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A fifth-grader at Annunciation Catholic School recalled the terrifying moment his young friend was shot while shielding him after a crazed gunman opened fire on a Minneapolis church Wednesday morning.

Weston Halsne, 10, told KARE-TV he ducked under a pew and covered his head when bullets ripped through the stained glass windows of Annunciation Catholic Church just three minutes after a celebratory back-toschool Mass filled with children started at around 8:30 a.m.

Weston said he heard a ...

‘I did it because I am sick’

Trans killer’s manifesto details his obsession with school shooters

Joe Marino, Diana Nerozzi & Chris Nesi

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The deranged shooter who attacked the Catholic church in Minneapolis identified as a transgender woman — and his mother, who worked at the school, sponsored his name change.

Robin Westman, formerly Robert Westman, 23, applied to change his birth name to Robert from Robin in Dakota County, Minn., when he was 17 years old, according to court documents.

Because he was a minor, his mother, Mary Grace Westman, signed the form.

Mary Grace worked as a secretary at the Annunciation school her son attacked until retiring in 2021, according to a Facebook post by the church.

Westman’s name change was granted in January 2020.

The petition added that Westman “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

‘Know I’m not a woman’

But five years later, he seemed to have backed away from that identity.

“I don’t want to dress girly all the time but I guess sometimes I really like it. I know I am not a woman but I definitely don’t feel like a man,” he wrote. “I really like my outfit. I look pretty, smart and modest. I think I want to wear something like this for my shooting.”

Robin posted a series of twisted videos on YouTube just hours before the attack, which included a manifesto, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed at a press conference.

In one 20-minute video, Westman flips through the disturbing handwritten manifesto, much of it written in a homespun code that uses Cyrillic characters and English phonetic words.

In the deranged writings, he gleefully fantasizes about “being that scary horrible monster standing over those powerless kids” and reverently confesses admiration for the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.

He also goes into great detail about his decision to target Annunciation, where he graduated from grade school in 2017.

“I am feeling good about Annunciation,” another page of the manifesto reads. “It seems like a good combo of easy attack form and devastating tragedy and I want to do more research. I have concerns about finding a large enough group. I want to avoid any parents, but pre and post school drop off.

“Maybe I could attack an event at the on-site church,” he ominously scribbled. “I think attacking a large group of kids coming in from recess is my best plan ... Then from there I can go inside and kill, going for as long as I can.”

‘Thought of murder’

Near the end of the video, Westman flicks through blank pages before reaching what appears to be a drawing showing the inside of a church, saying “Haha, nice” as he stops turning pages.

He then takes out a knife and stabs it into the center of the sketch, his hand quivering before he withdraws the blade, and quietly mumbles, “kill myself.”

In a video, titled “So long and thanks for all the fish,” Westman slowly turns the pages of the red notebook, which is laid out on top of what appears to be schematic gun diagrams, one of them reading Ruger Mark IV — a type of small-caliber pistol.

As he flips the pages, an occasional plume of smoke is seen from the bottom of the screen, punctuated by coughs, disjointed cursing and maniacal giggles.

Each page is filled with inscrutable handwritten doggerel, which includes violent ramblings such as “I have had thoughts about mass murder for a long time. I am very

conflicted with writing this journal,” the text, translated by The Post, reads in part. “I need to get my thoughts out without getting on a watchlist haha!”

The journal contains a number of other subtle clues about Weston’s identity — hinting at an angry melange of far-left politics and antisemitism. One page includes a trans pride flag sticker with “Defend equality” printed across the bottom, with a black AK-47 sticker laid on top.

‘Filthy Zionist jews’

In another entry, he writes, “If I carry out a racially motivated attack, it would be most likely against filthy Zionist jews,” before calling Jewish people “entitled” and “penny-sniffing” before adding “FREE PALESTINE!”

Another message scrawled on one of his many magazines read “Destroy HIAS,” the Jewish refugee aid group, while one of his guns read “Israel must fall, release the files,” a possible reference to Jeffrey Epstein.

“I hate fascism,” read yet another page, following it up shortly after with “I also love when kids get shot, I love to see kids get torn apart.”

He later bemoaned the media, saying he is “tired of the news headlines.”

“They only talk about brown people dying and I don’t care about them,” he wrote. “I like to hear when Israelis get killed, but they don’t like to report on that stuff.”

The demented manifesto sheds light on what appears to be a truly disturbed mind, with Weston musing about a grand “final act” — stating a desire to take out “a target of political or societal significance” before he died.

“For good would be a target or political or societal significance. Targets like Musk, Trump or some significant exec,” Westman wrote.

“I can’t really put my finger on a specific purpose. It definitely won’t be for racism or white supremacy. While I don’t really like being around people of color, I don’t give enough of a s--t about them to take my life for them,” he wrote.

“I don’t want to [do] it to spread a message. I do it to please myself. I do it because I am sick.”

He also indicated that he knew the Annunciation shooting would culminate in his death and complained about apparent health issues.

“I think I might have some prostate problems,” the journal read. “I have to piss so frequently and I’m sick of it. Even if I can heal, I still just want to die and kill many people.”

The unhinged shooter went on to express sincere admiration for mass shooters — including Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza.

‘Sandy Hook favorite’

“I have a deep fascination with one man in particular: Adam Lanza,” he wrote in the journal on May 23 in reference to the 20-yearold perpetrator of the worst elementary school shooting in US history, which left 20 first-grade students and six adult staffers dead. “Sandy Hook was my favorite, I think, exposure of school shootings.”

Another video posted to YouTube in the hours before the sickening slaughter showed off a cache of weapons — including a semi-automatic rifle and a shotgun.

Gun magazines were scrawled with “for the children” and “kill Donald Trump.”

Westman, who died at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun — all of which he bought legally, according to police.

In President Trump’s second term, left-wing extremist groups are becoming even more fringe and violent. It’s Antifa on steroids and we’re only beginning to see the deadly fallout.

Last month, Benjamin Song, a member of the militant groups Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club and the Socialist Rifle Association, led a group of 10 radicals — eight of whom were found living in a reportedly squalid transgender commune — in an armed ambush at an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. The shooting left one officer injured.

In 2020, Song was just a run-ofthe-mill black-clad Antifa street brawler, arrested at a riot in Austin that year. He’d expressed “anti-fascist” and “anti-capitalist” beliefs.

Song then formed his own group, focused on “trans and queer identity issues,” and used an Arlington, Texas, martial arts studio where his mother worked as a base for training lefty militants how to fire guns.

‘Seditionist movement’

An even more gruesome story unfolded with the February arrest of Jack “Ziz” Lasota (inset below), head of a murderous transgender cult accused of a multistate killing spree that took six lives.

The “Zizians” espoused an ideology of anarchism and extreme veganism, seeking to slaughter figures of “petty authority,” cops say.

“It’s a seditionist movement, where they are all in one box and they all believe a civil war, instability and burning the country down will bring in this greater era of prosperity that they think they’re going to implement,” Ryan Mauro, an extremist group investigator for the nonprofit Capital Research, told The Post.

“It’s more than just a consequence of general radicalism increasing on all sides. It’s part of an actual plan and a strategy. When you look at their internal communications, they describe themselves as guerrillas and insurgents by their own declaration,” he added.

Antifa was never a structured organization but more of a catchall movement for youthful anticapitalist angst. That broad ideology exploded in popularity during COVID lockdowns and the socialjustice riots of 2020 — attracting plenty of bored people under the banner of freedom fighting.

But from the ashes, as many flyby-night activists have returned to their normal lives, truly dangerous figures are emerging.

It usually goes like this: Stragglers and lost souls latch on to a charismatic elder in the movement — someone with nothing else going on in life but the communist hustle — and new factions are forged under the general “anti-fascist” umbrella, said Gabriel Nadales, a 31-year-old former Antifa member.

They have names like Smash Racism, Redneck Revolt and Refuse Fascism. (It should be noted that those particular groups are not accused of murder or fatal violence.)

“You don’t really have to worry about your average high school or college kid who [joins a BLM march]. You have to look at the people who’ve been around five, 10, 15 years,” Nadales, who now works for a pro-America nonprofit foundation, told The Post. “Those people are dangerous. They know how to push the boundaries without getting caught.” Antifa expert Mauro concurs: These elders, usually operating under anonymous online accounts or with the protection of well-funded nonprofits, know how to plant the seeds for vulnerable members to commit violent acts — without giving explicit, traceable instructions.

Lately, the most extreme sects seem to have a large number of transgender members. Nadales believes that is by design.

“One thing about counterrevolutionary movements is that they will look for people who they believe are rejected by society and they will embrace them,” he told The Post. “It’s not necessarily the fact they are transgender — rather, they see the transgender movement as a revolutionary group, so it’s the new vehicle to attack ‘the system.’ ”

‘Inflection point’

The Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel, and the ensuing Gaza war, landed in the laps of America’s disparate network of Marxist revolutionaries — who follow news cycles with hawklike interest — just when they were feeling the most attention-starved.

The idea that they are all dyed in-the-wool, anti-Zionist/pro-Palestine protesters calling for global intifada is only opportunistic marketing, experts said. America is the only real target.

“They were all looking for that inflection point. You had all these extremists building ties with each other and, particularly since the riots in 2020, they were looking for the next big thing in order to show their power,” said Mauro, who monitors left-wing radical groups on platforms like Telegram, Discord and Bluesky.

Show of power is a primary tool of recruitment, according to Mauro. Blocking traffic and smashing up Wendy’s got old. The natural course is escalation to increasingly shocking, headline-stealing acts of violence and even murder.

In February 2024, Aaron Bushnell, 25, horrified a nation when he committed suicide outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, setting himself on fire while shouting “Free Palestine!”

He was a member of Democratic Socialists of America as well as extremist cells including the Burning River Anarchist Collective — and his heralding as a martyr by sister groups across the

Marxosphere seemed to encourage an escalation in bloodshed.

Even mainstream lefty figures like academic Cornel West praised the self-immolator’s “extraordinary courage and commitment” and said he “died for truth and justice.”

And many activists claimed, posthumously, that Bushnell was trans — as if to add another jewel to his crown.

A year later, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez allegedly assassinated two young Israeli Embassy staffers in DC, also shouting “Free Palestine!” over the fallen bodies of his victims.

Rodriguez, who has been charged with first-degree murder and hate crime, was reportedly associated with Antifa satellite organization the Party for Socialism and Liberation. After the shooting, the group said in a statement: “We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting. Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL.”

Following the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., by Thomas Matthew Crooks, who apparently had no ties to the PSL, the group released a rambling statement declaring, “In periods of major upheaval domestically and internationally, the tendency to resolve struggles within the ruling class using violence grows stronger.”

“It was very clear from what they were publishing: the overall objective here doesn’t stop with Israel,” Mauro said of groups he monitors.

‘So many bad actors’

While Middle East headlines come and go, the mythology of racism in America remains the Leninist Leviathan’s meat and potatoes.

“Months ago, they said they needed a strategy for beyond when the Middle East is out of the headlines, because it’s not really about Israel and Gaza — that’s what they said in some of these memos: That we need to shift to an anti-police movement that fights for racial rights. That has staying power,” Mauro said, referring to content shared through social networks.

Mauro, who advises law-enforcement agencies on domestic terrorism, said they’re often quite strapped, and even overwhelmed, to handle increasing violence from fringe and deranged Antifa spinoffs.

“They really can only go after the most top-tier cases — and that’s just not enough, because you have so many bad actors capable of creating mayhem,” he explained.

“Anyone in law enforcement will tell you how it is basically a miracle that we’re not having attacks almost every day, because you have so many people out there that want to do it.”

Slaughter of the Innocents

2 little angels murdered

By Anna Young, Anthony Blair and Chris Nesi

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Two children, just 8 and 10 years old, were gunned down when a crazed transgender shooter opened fire during a back-to-school Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, sending terrified students diving under pews to escape the bullets.

The little victims “were killed where they sat” in the pews when Robin Westman, who identified as a transgender woman, started shooting, officials said.

Shea McAdaragh was seated in the rear pews with his secondgrader son and couldn’t recall hearing a single sc...

‘It’s guns, not trans’

Minny mayor plea

Shane Galvin shane.galvin@nypost.com

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey preached about trans rights during a press conference on the mass shooting that left two children dead at Annunciation Catholic School, hours after it was revealed gunman Robin Westman identified as a transgender woman.

“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Frey told reporters Wednesday afternoon.

“Anybody who is using this ... as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. Kids died. This needs to be about them.” ...