Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman targeted school Mass after finding details online: ‘parents won’t be there’
Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman targeted his former Catholic school’s first Mass of the year after finding details about the gathering online, according to chilling, detailed notes he made.
He also revealed that he targeted Annunciation Catholic School and the church next door because he knew it well — his mother worked there as a secretary and he attended as a child.
“The school schedule is publicly posted online so I should go through that and look for events that look promising. Oooo! Aug. 27th, that is an all-school mass!” the gunman put in the July 25 entry of his twisted handwritten diary that he shared on YouTube before Wednesday’s massacre.
“I bet the front doors will be unlocked today. I will go to Starbucks at 8:40, chill there, [then] walk to the church at 9:30, arrive about three minutes late,” he wrote in the Aug. 10 entry, describing his trial run of the shooting.
“I will walk down the west side and try door 22 on my way to the south doors. After Mass, I will try to exit out of the main doors and walk down the east side to go to the office,” he wrote in a homespun code of Russian Cyrillic and English words, which was translated by The Post.
He said he picked the target because of his familiarity with it.
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“I went to that school so I know the layout. I don’t think I really need to do that much recon at the start of the school,” he wrote.
Westman’s diary lays out how carefully he planned his attack on the Annunciation Catholic School and Church, even down to the car spot he would park in.
He also added: “The parking spot at Annunciation I wanted to use is a handicap spot, so it might be suspicious if I park there. It shouldn’t be a big deal initially, I don’t think I will be in my car long or even park in a spot now anyway,” he wrote.
He also looked for anyone who might be capable of challenging him.
“Both times I went to the church, I didn’t see any men under the age of 55. I only saw old people and some mom-aged ladies, some with very young kids,” he said.
“Even still, these boomers could be packing.”