Minneapolis school shooter ID'd as trans woman Robin Westman, had 'Kill Donald Trump' scrawled on gun

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA: The person who opened fire on a Minnesota Catholic school on Wednesday, August 27, killing two children and wounding 17 others, has been identified as 23-year-old transgender woman Robin Westman. She had scrawled an anti-Trump message on her gun.

Police said 14 of the injured were children, ranging from 6 to 15 years old, and are all expected to survive. Meanwhile, the three adults who were injured are parishioners in their 80s, officials said.

Shooting suspect Robin Westman had scrawled anti-Trump message on gun

Robin Westman, who was later found dead in the parking lot from what officials believe was a self-inflicted gunshot, had "kill Donald Trump" and "nuke India" written on her guns, a video on her now-deleted YouTube channel showed.

She used all three weapons - a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol - and fired dozens of rounds at the church at the Annunciation Catholic School.

Moreover, court records show Westman's name was changed from Robert in 2020 because Westman identified as female.

There were at least two videos posted on a YouTube channel titled 'Robin W' before site administrators took the channel down.

One of the videos, which was about 10 minutes long and shot on a mobile phone, showed a cache of weapons, ammunition, and loaded magazines.

The magazines had "Kill Donald Trump", "Kill Trump now", "Israel must fall", and "Burn Israel" written on them.

Meanwhile, "Nuke India" was also written on one of the weapons, whereas "Where is your God?" and "for the children" were also written on the magazines.

Moreover, the second video on the channel, which was almost 20 minutes long, featured two different journals.

The first was over 150 pages, written in what seemed to be the Cyrillic alphabet. The second one had a last entry dated 8-21-25 and was more than 60 pages, also written entirely in Cyrillic.

Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed the authenticity of the video, and said the "deeply sick murderer scrawled" the words "For the Children" and "Where is your God?" and "Kill Donald Trump" on the rifle magazine.

She wrote on X, "This level of violence is unthinkable."

Elementary school worker says shooting hits too close to home

Em Paulson, a paraprofessional at a Minneapolis-area elementary school, informed CNN that Wednesday’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic School hits close to home.

"It’s so riveting hearing about any school shooting no matter what profession you’re in, but when you work in a school, it hurts just a little bit more," Paulson said.

The person added, "My teaching community is constantly reminded about how, one day, we may need to stand in between these children and violence."

Vincent Francoual, a prominent Minneapolis chef, told the outlet that Laura Coates, his daughter, who was in Mass at Annunciation Catholic School, is traumatized after surviving the deadly shooting.

Notably, there have been 44 US school shootings in 2025, as per a CNN analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week, and Everytown for Gun Safety.

Interestingly, that number is one higher than the number of school shootings, 43, that had happened at this point in the year in 2024.

Moreover, the years since the pandemic have seen an increase in school shootings, with 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 setting records since at least 2008, per CNN.