Minneapolis Mass Killer Had Chilling Hate Message For India

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The mass shooter who attacked a Catholic church in Minneapolis also had a chilling hate message for India.

In one of the weapons, the shooter had written, “Nuke India”, and above that in misspelt Russian, “Kill yourself”, and showed them off on a video uploaded to social media before the attack on August 27.

Two children, eight and ten, were killed, and 17 people were injured in the attack on the church as the pupils of the church’s school were at a mass to mark the opening of the academic year.

Three of those killed were people in their 80s who had come for the mass, police said.

The shooter, identified by police as Robin Westman, and shot herself after firing into the church through a stained-glass window.

The killer had completed eighth grade at the school as a boy named Robert Westman in 2017, according to a school publication, before declaring himself to be a transgender girl and legally changing his name in 2020.

In the video she had uploaded, she showed several hate messages, including ‘Kill Donald Trump now,’ that she had written on several weapons she used.

Sounding like a White Supremacist, the killer also had hate messages against Latinos, African Americans, Jews and Israel.

The videos she uploaded were taken down at the request of the police, but copies were available on social media.

The video’s authenticity was confirmed by Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem, who referred in an X post to some of the writings found on the weapons seen in the video.

“This deeply sick murderer scrawled the words ‘For the Children’ and ‘Where is your God?’ and ‘Kill Donald Trump’ on a rifle magazine,” Noem posted.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that his agency was investigating the shooting as domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics.

This is the second incident of a transgender person attacking a Christian institution in two years.

A transgender man, who was born female, carried out a mass shooting at a Christian school in 2023, killing three 9-year-old children and three adults.

The latest attack on a place of worship and on children had reverberations around the US and across the world.

In a telegram sent to the local archbishop by the Vatican, Pope Leo condoled the deaths and sent his “blessing as a pledge of peace, fortitude and consolation in the Lord Jesus.” (IANS)