A mass shooting during morning mass at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis killed two children and injured at least 17 other people, according to the supplied BNO News report. Police said the suspect, 23-year-old Robin Westman, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the parking lot after firing into the church from outside the building.
The attack took place just before 8:30 a.m. on the first week of school, when dozens of children were sitting in the pews at the Catholic church and school. The shooter is said to have fired through a church window while worshippers were inside. The victims included an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, and the report says 14 of the wounded were children aged 4 to 15.
The supplied evidence says Westman had posted an 11-minute video before the shooting that was automatically published to YouTube afterward. In that video, the suspect showed a letter to family members, weapons and magazines covered with racist, antisemitic, anti-religion and anti-Trump messages. The video also reportedly praised Anders Behring Breivik and mentioned other mass shooters and white nationalists. Those details are important because they show the shooting was tied to an ideological performance as well as a direct attack on children and worshippers.
The report also says police identified the suspect as a transgender woman who had been born Robert and later changed the legal name to Robin. That detail appeared in the BNO account, but the key verified fact for the news record is not the suspect's identity label; it is that investigators said the person acted alone and died at the scene. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said there was no sign of another attacker.
Local officials also said an 18th injured person was treated by hospitals, bringing the total number of wounded higher than the initial police count. The report further notes that President Donald Trump said he had been briefed and that the FBI had responded. That places the attack immediately into national political and law-enforcement attention, but the central tragedy remained local: children were shot in a church during mass.
The supplied evidence supports a narrow but devastating conclusion. Two children were killed, many more people were hurt, and the suspect died after the assault. The church setting, the age of the victims and the online manifesto-like material make it one of the most disturbing school-church shootings in recent US memory.
