In the United States, a new episode of armed violence involved a school, causing the death of two children and the injury of several other people. Author of the attack an anti-Israel and anti-trump trans trans. A crime of hatred against Catholics, yet another alarm signal that should not be underestimated. The drama took place in Minneapolis, at the Annunciation Catholic School, an institute that hosts pupils from kindergarten to middle school. The fact happened a few days after the start of the new school year, during the morning mass within the church of the school complex.
According to what was reconstructed, at 8:30 in the morning the man who identified himself in a woman opened fire from the outside of the building, hitting through the windows of the church. The author of the shooting, identified as Robin Westman, 23, was armed with a rifle and two guns. Before acting, he would have blocked two doors of the building with wooden axes, making the escape to those present difficult. Law enforcement officers defined the episode “a deliberate act of violence against Innocenti”.
Two 8 and 10 -year -old children deceased while sitting with the benches during the religious function. Another 14 students, between 6 and 14 years old, were injured, seven of whom are in serious conditions. Three adults were also hospitalized. Witnesses present at the scene told moments of panic and despair. “I was happy to see the children come out unharmed and safe, but only the expression on their faces, the screams of mothers who did not know where their children were,” a woman reported to local media reported.
After making the attack, Westman took his life. He also had a rudimentary pyrotechnic device with him who, according to investigators, may have been used to generate smoke. The preliminary investigations indicate that the man, who had legally changed his name from Robert to Robin in 2020, suffered from serious psychological disorders. Before the attack, he published on the net content that referred to suicide and violence, including videos in which firearms and messages against President Donald Trump appeared, as well as sketches of the plant of a church.
The authorities are trying to clarify whether the drawings referred to the same church in which the shooting took place. According to the New York Postamong the materials published online there would also be magazines specialized in weapons with phrases such as “Kills Donald Trump” and “for children” handwritten. Among the other, messages written on the chargers, the writings “Israel must die” and “Where is your God?”. The President of the United States commented on the incident by calling him a “tragic shooting” and announced that the flags in the White House will be hoisted at half auction. “We pray for the people involved,” he said. The Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, wrote on X: “Please for our kids and teachers, whose first week of school was ruined by this horrible act of violence”. The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, also intervened publicly: “It is not possible to express the gravity, tragedy or absolute pain of this moment in words”.
Messages of condolence also came from Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar, and Senator JD Vance, who expressed solidarity on social media. However, some users recalled his past declaration, according to which “massacres at school are a fact of life”, dating back to his election campaign of a year ago for the vice -president. According to the data collected by Education Weekthat of Minneapolis is the seventh shooting that took place in a school context since the beginning of the year with victims or injuries. The Gun Violence Archive Instead, it reports over 190 mass shootings in the United States during 2025.
But there is another problem. The priority of the mayor of Minneapolis was not condemned the attack, but defending the rainbow community. Here are the chilling considerations of Jacob Frey: “And I heard about a lot of hatred that is directed towards our trans community. Anyone who is using this opportunity to demonize our trans community or any other community has lost the sense of common humanity. We should not act from a place of hatred towards anyone, we should act from a place of love for our children”. And again, instead of expressing closeness to the Catholics: “Do not say that at this moment it is only thoughts and prayers, these children were literally praying. It was the first week of school: they were in a church. These are children who should study with their friends, they should play in the playground, they should be able to go to school or in the church in peace without fear or the risk of violence and their parents should have the same certainty”.
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