Sickening clips have emerged of the suspect behind the horror shooting at a Catholic church in the United States, which revealed an affinity for Satanism, antisemitism and racism.
Robin Westman has been identified as the suspect who killed two children and injured 17 others at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota at around 8.30am on Wednesday.
The 23-year-old — who was born “Robert” and identified as a transgender woman — was found dead in an apparent suicide after shooting through the school’s stained-glass church windows during a weekday Mass.
“This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping,” Minneapolis Police chief Brian O’Hara said, although the force has yet to identify an official motive behind the attack.
However, in a YouTube video posted ahead of the attack, Westman wrote: “I have wanted this for so long” and acknowledged “I’m not well”.
Westman flips through a notepad containing handwritten notes, most of which does not appear to be in English.
All-caps letters on one page read “Sick f*** sick f*** murderer” and the final page shown in the 20-minute video stated: “The end. I’m so sorry.”
Westman — whose mother was an employee at the school, according to local television station KARE11 — can be heard in the background saying “I love my family” and “I can’t deal with this anymore”.
In another now-deleted clip posted by Westman, a knife stabs the centre of a page depicting the layout of a church, complete with drawings of the doorways, the pews and a cross.
Westman can be heard in the 10-minute video laughing while zooming in on an image of Jesus Christ pinned to a shooting target, featuring the text: “He came to pay a debt he didn’t owe because we owe a debt we cannot repay”.
Following this, Westman moves the camera to show anti-Christian messages on a set of guns, which were lawfully purchased, with one asking “Where’s your God?”
Another text on a rifle stated “take this all of you and eat,” which mocks the words said by Jesus to his disciples at the Last Supper.
Westman drew an inverted pentagram on one of the magazines, an illustration often used to promote Satanism, as well as the number “666”.
The names of mass murderers were also drawn on Westman’s weapons, including the Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a Oslo in 2011.
The Christchurch and Colorado Springs shooters, Brenton Harrison Tarran and James Holmes, were also referenced.
Other inscriptions read “Israel must fall”, “filthy Zionist Jews” and “6 million wasn’t enough” — a reference to the number of Jewish people killed during the Holocaust.
There were eerie messages targeting several other ethnic and racial groups, with one text stating “Nuke India” and “remove kebab”.
Westman threatened to kill US President Donald Trump while referencing various memes, including the 2019 Oscar-winning movie Joker.
In the video, Westman flashed the “OK” hand symbol, which was used by Natalie Rupnow before she killed three people at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin in 2024.
The YouTube channel "Robin W" has since been removed by the website’s administrators.
The White House has since ordered the United States flag to be flown at half-staff nationwide as a sign of mourning.
