Critics of the media found a new target on Wednesday after an ABC News reporter made a misleading claim pointing to the motivations of the Minneapolis transgender shooting suspect.

Investigators have not yet declared any determination about the motivations of Robin Westman, who reportedly killed himself after shooting about 20 people and killing two children aged 8 and 10 years old at a Catholic church.

‘Nice job following the mass media narrative. Nice job saying what you have been told to say.’

While reporting on the evidence gathered by the suspect, Aaron Katersky said only that Westman had the word “Trump” on his weapon but did not explain that he had written, “Kill Donald Trump,” rather than just his name.

“23-year-old Robin Westman was able to leave what police called a video manifesto that they’re now going through to try to establish motive,” he said.

“We’ve also been going through it, and I can tell you there are crude diagrams of the church. There are also photos of the weapons, and they include all sorts of writings, the names of past mass shooters, criticism of Israel, the name of President Trump written on the guns,” Katersky added.

“There are also racial slurs, nihilistic statements,” he continued, “all painting the picture of a disturbed individual who carried out this mass shooting on the first week of school at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis.”

Video of Katersky’s comments were posted to social media, where they quickly went viral. Many believed the reporter intentionally crafted the comments to imply the alleged shooter was pro-Trump.

“The Catholic school shooter’s gun said ‘Kill Donald Trump.’ To mention his gun ‘had Trump’s name written on it’ without sharing the full context is misleading at best,” reporter Olivia Rondeau responded.

“He left it vague enough to allow people to think that it was a right wing shooter,” another response reads.

“Aaron Katersky not so subtly insinuates a false link between the trans lunatic shooter and Donald Trump. Hey, @AaronKatersky. The murderous trans maniac wanted the President dead. Why is that so hard to say?” another critic replied.

RELATED: Catholic schools begged Gov. Walz to increase security before horrific shooting — he did nothing

“Not just the name. Why do you lie to our loved ones so constantly? Do you not understand the strife you cause by this? Is it intentional?” another detractor replied.

“Nice job obfuscating the truth about the shooter’s wanting to kill President Trump. Nice job following the mass media narrative. Nice job saying what you have been told to say. Nice job being just another biased a**hole killing what little trust is left at ABC,” another response reads.

Blaze News reached out to Katersky via email for comment, but he had not responded by time of publishing.

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A hate-filled 23-year-old male who claimed to be transgender and said he had a “twisted mind” and wanted to die opened fire on a full Annunciation Catholic Church in south Minneapolis on Wednesday, killing two children and injuring 17 while fulfilling “a final act that has been in the back of my head for years.”

Robert Paul Westman, who had his name legally changed to Robin M. Westman in January 2020, left behind a handwritten letter, journals, a video, and a trove of information that serve as ample evidence of a deeply disturbed mind and soul, FBI sources confirmed to Blaze News.

‘I was corrupted by this world and have learned to hate what life is.’

Apparently recorded Aug. 26, a video allegedly posted by Westman to YouTube but later scrubbed after the shooting described a deeply depressed individual who had hatred toward the Catholic faith, President Donald J. Trump, Jews, and the children he was about to massacre with his rifle.

Westman, whose mother used to work at Annunciation Catholic Church, expressed regret for what his crime would do to his family, but said, “I will be selfish and leave you to pick up the pieces,” according to pages of the letter shown in the video.

While asking his parents, family, and friends to “pray for the victims and their families,” Westman nevertheless dripped with disdain and anger, saying, “F**k those kids.”

RELATED: Catholic schools begged Gov. Tim Walz to increase security before horrific shooting — and he did nothing

A Minneapolis police officer with a K-9 sweeps a neighborhood following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and school in south Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025.Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

According to Minneapolis police, Westman stood outside the church during holy Mass for the opening of the 2025-26 school year at Annunciation Catholic School. He fired a rifle through the church windows, striking more than 20 children and adults praying inside. As police closed in on the church, Westman committed suicide in the back of the church, police said.

The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of anti-Catholic domestic terrorism, Director Kash Patel posted on X.

‘Wanted this for so long’

In his goodbye letter and video, Westman said he has experienced depression and had thoughts of suicide and of committing a mass shooting for a long time.

“I have wanted this for so long. I am not well,” Westman wrote. “I am not right. I am a sad person, haunted by these things that do not go away. I know this is wrong but I can’t seem to stop myself. I am severely depressed and have been suicidal for years.

“Only recently have I lost all hope and decided to perform my final action against this world,” Westman wrote. “I don’t want to kneel down for the injustices of this world. I want to die. I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees, constantly in pain.”

‘It seems to me that he hated God and hated creation.’

Evidence of Westman’s hatred of Catholicism was easy to find in his letter and video. He let out a demonic-sounding laugh when showing a depiction of Jesus Christ in a crown of thorns, pasted to the top of a paper target from a shooting range. Below Christ’s image was a caption that read, “He came to pay a debt He didn’t owe. Because we owe a debt we cannot pay.”

On the video, Westman showed off his collection of magazines for his rifle. Each had messages written in white ink or paint, including: “F**k this world,” “For the Children,” “Killer sadist,” “Kill Donald Trump,” “Have fun,” “Suck on this,” “kill pedos,” “F**k everything that you stand for,” “Eat s**t fa**ot,” and “Kick a Spic.”

On one magazine was the message, “Where is your God?” although while showing it off on camera, Westman said it this way: “Where is your f***ing God now?”

On one side of a Mossberg 590 pump-action shotgun shown on the video was the message, “Take this all of you and eat,” mimicking the words spoken by Christ at the Last Supper when He instituted the Holy Eucharist.

Westman picked up and showed off what appeared to be a snub-nose .38-caliber handgun and said, “This one’s for me in case I need it.” It is not yet known which weapon he used to commit suicide.

RELATED: FBI investigating atrocious Minnesota shooting as anti-Catholic hate crime

An image of Jesus Christ with the crown of thorns stuck to a paper shooting-range target shown in a video posted by Robin aka Robert Westman, who wrote anti-Trump messages on his weapons and drew a sketch of Annunciation Catholic Church in south Minneapolis. Westman video/YouTube

Above those words was another message, “F**k this world.” Below it was written, “Baruk Khazâd,” a battle cry from the works of Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien that means “axes of the dwarves.”

Westman apparently scrawled anti-Jew and anti-Israel messages on his shotgun and on a canister of smoke intended for use at one of the exits from the church. On the canister of smoke was written, “Jew gas.” On his shotgun was written, “Israel must fall.”

Most Rev. Bernard A. Hebda, archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, did not address any specifics of the attack on Annunciation Catholic Church, but asked for prayers from “all men and women of good will.”

‘I just want to escape from this world.’

“I beg for the continued prayers of all of the priests and faithful of this Archdiocese, as well for the prayers of all men and women of good will, that the healing that only God can bring will be poured out on all those who were present at this morning’s Mass and particularly for the affected families who are only now beginning to comprehend the trauma they sustained,” Archbishop Hebda wrote in a letter on the archdiocesan website.

RELATED: Tone-deaf Democrats lash out over prayers for Christians murdered in devastating Minnesota shooting

Pages believed to be from a goodbye letter from Robin aka Robert Westman to his family and friends, shown in a video made before he attacked Annunciation Catholic Church and School in south Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025.Westman video/YouTube

“While we need to commit to working to prevent the recurrence of such tragedies, we also need to remind ourselves that we have a God of peace and of love, and that it is His love that we will need most as we strive to embrace those who are hurting so deeply,” the archbishop wrote.

In his goodbye letter, Westman apologized to his parents and siblings for the pain his crimes were about to bring upon them.

“I truly appreciate the love you have given me,” Westman wrote to his parents, Mary Grace and James Westman. “I feel I was raised to be a good person. I’ve kept those traits of empathy, self-sacrifice and good character. Please do not think you have failed as parents. I was corrupted by this world and have learned to hate what life is.”

Court-approved name change

Mary Westman petitioned a court in Dakota County, Minn., for her son, Robert Paul Westman, to change his name to Robin M. Westman. According to court records, the name change was granted, effective Jan. 15, 2020.

In his letter, Westman expressed the belief that he was dying of cancer.

“It’s a tragic end, as it’s entirely self inflicted,” Westman wrote. “I did this to myself, as I cannot control myself and have been destroying my body through vaping and other means. I think I have lung cancer. I have felt many pains that make me think I am past the point of recovery. I do not want to recover.”

He credited his family and friends with helping to give him a longer life.

“You all are what kept me going. I find no more interest in anything material,” Westman said. “I have only an interest in my mission and love for my family. If I didn’t have such an amazing group of people around me, I would have been gone much sooner.

RELATED: Covenant school trans shooter’s full manifesto released: ‘If God won’t give me a boy body …’

Law enforcement officers work near the scene of a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in south Minneapolis, Minn., on Aug. 27, 2025.Photo by Tom Baker/AFP via Getty Images

“I just want to escape from this world,” he wrote. “Escape from the constant bills, s**tty jobs, s**tty people and injustice of America. I am done with this. I will not bow. I will be selfish and leave you to pick up the pieces. It’s my fault. Blame me, but please move on.” Westman had also written “ATTA” on one of his weapons, along with the word “Mashallah.” Atta was an apparent reference to Mohamed Atta, one of the airline hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001. Mashallah is a phrase referring to the power of “Allah,” the god of Islam.

Robert Spencer, founder of the Jihad Watch website, said Westman appears to have aligned himself with forces of evil.

“It seems to me that he hated God and hated creation and so identified with historically destructive forces, such as Islamic jihadis and haters of Jews,” Spencer told Blaze News in an email.

According to the advocacy group CatholicVote, there have been 520 attacks on Catholic churches in the United States since May 2020, including 40 so far in 2025.

“Attacks spiked dramatically after the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked in May 2022,” CatholicVote wrote on its website. “At least 354 attacks have been perpetrated against Catholic churches since the Supreme Court leak, with many including graffiti with pro-abortion messages.”

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Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. is shaking up Washington by cutting vaccine funding, challenging Big Pharma, and pushing to yank the COVID shot off the U.S. market — while President Trump continues to champion Operation Warp Speed.

RFK’s latest moves were featured in an article in Newsweek, which appears to be what the president is responding to.

“Despite COVID, which was a very unfortunate situation for the whole world, we did a great job with it. Never got the credit for the job we did. Operation Warp Speed, people say, is one of the greatest achievements ever, in politics or in the military, because it was almost a military procedure,” President Trump said during a recent cabinet meeting.

“But everybody, including Putin, said that Operation Warp Speed, what you did with that, nobody can believe it. And we did a great job,” he added.

“It looks like HHS, they’re like, ‘Hey, you know what? We’ve gotten rid of some of the other vaccine stuff. You can’t give this to kids or pregnant women anymore.’ And, you know, sometimes you just want to leak some information out there,” BlazeTV host Jill Savage tells Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“And Donald Trump heard that, and at his press conference, I mean, you just heard the reaction,” she adds.

“Yeah, that’s expected,” Bedford says. “That’s kind of an amateur move from HHS when you’re dealing with President Trump, who’s not like most other people.”

“The secretary of defense has found this out, for example, when he went ahead of the president on putting off arms shipments to Ukraine. This is something that was actually on the president’s agenda, but it wasn’t the right time with the president’s negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, and he was extremely irritated that there was a rollout beforehand,” he continues.

As for RFK’s moves, Bedford believes he’s taking it “a bridge too far.”

“He ought to take warning, and he ought to probably back off and figure out a different way, because if he does want to get this done, then leaking it to Newsweek, leaking it to liberal reporters and not going through the proper [channels] and convincing the president,” Bedford explains, “well, that’s not the way to do it.”

“That’s actually the way to lose your job,” he adds.

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As the Minneapolis community reels in the wake of a horrific shooting at a Catholic church school, the city’s Democratic mayor stunned many with a bizarre statement during a press conference.

Two children aged 8 and 10 years old were killed, and another 17 were injured, including 14 children. The 22-year-old shooter reportedly killed himself and had identified as a transgender person.

‘Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity.’

In a press conference about the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frey took time to scold anyone who might ascribe the motivation of the shooter to be related to his transgender identity.

“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Frey said, with law enforcement officials standing behind him.

“Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity,” he added. “We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating from a place of love for our kids.”

RELATED: Catholic schools begged Tim Walz to increase security before horrific shooting — he did nothing

Frey and other Democrats used the occasion to belittle and mock those who would offer up prayers for the victims and their families.

Frey demonstrated his far-left extremism in January when he announced that the city’s officers would not be cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

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As new details emerge regarding Raja Jackson’s violent beatdown of Syko Stu during a wrestling match — where he landed 20+ punches to the wrestler as he knocked him out cold and put him in critical condition — some are excusing the behavior as simply “going too far.”

A.J. Mana, a wrestler who was at KnoxK Pro, was seen telling Jackson to give Stu “a receipt” and to “tag his s**t” before Raja’s run-in on Stu’s match.

Now he’s trying to defend what happened.

“He is there on business, or for business. Not to do business in the show, to promote the show. To promote me. To promote himself. It was a cross-collaborative agreement. Y’all want to suggest that somehow I would set up my own brother? Y’all want to push this f**king narrative that me, not the gimmick, the f**king human being,” Mana said on “The F Y’all Podcast with C.T. Fletcher.”

“Yes, he went too far. We don’t have to ascertain whether or not he went too far. I’m trying to absolve myself right now of these false allegations that I somehow — what was the term? I prompted the … attempted murder. An accessory to attempted to murder,” he continued.

“That’s a serious allegation,” he added.

“This is not the smartest group of people on the planet. This is a group of desperate people. And if you know anything about professional wrestling, this is the people at the bottom that eventually rise all the way to the top, may become Hulk Hogan, but they all start out desperate,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says on “Fearless.”

“And now that we’ve created this livestream world where everybody is out trying to get rich by turning their personal life into ‘The Truman Show,’ that all they see themselves is as a piece of content,” he says.

“And so when you watch these guys talk about this incident when A.J. Mana, he’s talking, ‘We were on business, I was doing my livestream, he’s doing his livestream, we’re trying to build a brand,’” he continues.

And that “brand” is a degenerate one.

“This is the world we’ve built. The more profane, the more degenerate, the more criminal, the more sexually deviant you are, the more valuable the system sees you. This media content system, it sees you as more valuable. It funnels you more attraction. It funnels you more views,” Whitlock says.

“I’m amazed, like this is what entertains people,” he says, adding, “This is what draws a massive audience.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that the bureau is investigating Wednesday’s atrocious shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime against Catholics.

The shooter, who was later identified as Robin Westman, took aim at mass attendees, including school children and faculty, through the stained-glass windows at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis. Westman viciously murdered two children, ages 8 and 10, injured 17 others, and later took his own life in the parking lot of the church.

‘This deranged monster targeted our most vulnerable.’

The FBI also confirmed that Robin was a male who was originally named Robert Westman at birth. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated that Westman was a 22 year-old man “claiming to be transgender.”

“The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics,” Patel wrote in a post on X.

RELATED: Dead Minnesota church shooting suspect identified. Video suggests he was transgender and anti-Trump.

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

“There were 2 fatalities, an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old,” Patel added. “In addition, 14 children and 3 adults were injured.”

“The shooter has been identified as Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman. The FBI will continue to provide updates on our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able.”

The shooting took place while students attended Mass at 8:15 a.m.

RELATED: Gunman opens fire at Catholic church; police say there are about 20 victims

Photo by TOM BAKER/AFP via Getty Images

“This deranged monster targeted our most vulnerable: young children praying in their first morning Mass of the school year,” Noem wrote in a post on X. “This deeply sick murderer scrawled the words ‘For the Children’ and ‘Where is your God?’ and ‘Kill Donald Trump’ on a rifle magazine.”

“This level of violence is unthinkable. Our deepest prayers are with the children, parents, families, educators, and Christians everywhere. We mourn with them, we pray for healing, and we will never forget them.”

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A devastating shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota has some pointing fingers at Democratic Gov. Tim Walz after he reportedly refused to heed warnings about the growing threats to students.

A man who identified as transgender fired upon students at Annunciation Church and Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Two children, ages 8 and 10 years old, have died, and another 17 victims were wounded in the attack.

‘It’s a lack of will to do it by elected officials, coupled with opposition by some legislators because nonpublic school students were included in the funding.’

While some on the left are calling for gun control and blaming Republican policies, the state’s Democratic governor might have failed to increase security despite being warned two years prior to the latest attack.

The letter of warning was penned by Minnesota Catholic Conference Executive Director Jason Adkins and Minndependent President Tim Benz and dated April 14, 2023. It cited a school shooting at the time in Tennessee, which was also perpetrated by a trans-identifying shooter.

“The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know – our schools are under attack,” read the letter obtained by the Daily Wire. “In Minnesota, nonpublic schools, particularly our Jewish and Muslim schools, have experienced increased levels of threats, all of which we must take very seriously.”

The letter asked Walz to ensure that nonpublic schools had access to funds earmarked for school security by a $50 million budget recommendation.

“We need to ensure that all of [our] schools have the resources to respond to and prevent these attacks from happening to our schools,” they wrote.

Adkins confirmed to the Daily Wire that Walz ignored the plea.

“It’s a lack of will to do it by elected officials, coupled with opposition by some legislators because nonpublic school students were included in the funding,” he said. “I would note that Minnesota had an $18 billion budget surplus in the 2023-24 session, and this was not funded.”

RELATED: Gov. Walz’s condemnation of Trump’s efforts to make Democrat-run cities safe aged really poorly

He went on to say that Walz expressed support for the idea but that the funding was not approved.

“It was raised in discussions between the bishops and Gov. Walz, and he communicated his belief that people should feel safe in their schools and places of worship,” Adkins continued. “But the appropriation was not created.”

The report also noted that Walz instead worked to protect trans-identifying individuals from “transphobia.”

President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of the shooting victims.

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Left-wing billionaire George Soros got a warning from the most powerful man on Earth on Wednesday about his controversial political activism.

Soros has dumped tens of millions of dollars into left-wing causes through his nonprofit Open Society Foundations. The 95-year-old appears to be passing the torch to his son, Alexander Soros, to keep supporting progressive policies.

‘Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends.’

President Donald Trump appeared to lean on recent reports showing Soros’ involvement in groups that allegedly participated in rioting in the U.S.

“George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,” he wrote on Truth Social.

“We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to ‘BREATHE,’ and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends,” Trump added.

The president concluded with a warning: “Be careful, we’re watching you!”

A spokesperson for Soros’ nonprofit responded to the president’s allegations in a statement to the National News Desk.

“The Open Society Foundations do not support or fund violent protests. Our mission is to advance human rights, justice, and democratic principles at home and around the world,” the spokesperson’s statement reads. “We stand for fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, including the rights to free speech and peaceful protest that are hallmarks of any vibrant democracy.”

The nonprofit gave financial support to two groups, Community Change and Community Change Action, which in turn supported “Free DC,” an organization that coordinated protests against Trump and his policies.

RELATED: LA County sheriff reveals stunning consequences of Soros-backed DA’s justice reform on child porn case

The Open Society Foundations spokesperson denied supporting violence while defending the group’s support of political demonstrations.

“We do not pay people to protest or directly train or coordinate protestors. All OSF grantees are required to comply with the law and we expect our grantees to uphold our shared commitment to human rights, dignity, and nonviolence,” the spokesperson said. “The Open Society Foundations oppose all forms of violence, including violent protests.”

USA Today said neither George Soros nor his son Alexander could be reached for comment.

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New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz indicated that the shooter who opened fire on a Minneapolis Catholic church full of children Wednesday — injuring 17 and killing two kids, ages 8 and 10 — was named Robin Westman.

Two sources familiar with the investigation told the Minnesota Star Tribune that Westman, 23, is indeed the suspected shooter.

‘I regret everything. I didn’t ask for life. You didn’t ask for death.’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday confirmed on X that that the shooter was “claiming to be transgender.”

Indeed, conservative influencer Harrison Krank obtained an alleged court document indicating that Westman went through a name change in 2020 — going from Robert to Robin. The document notes further that Westman “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

KARE-TV noted that “the shooter was 23-year-old Robin, formerly Robert, Westman.”

RELATED: Gunman opens fire at Catholic church; police say there are about 20 victims

Law enforcement sources said Westman grew up in Richfield and that Westman’s mother was an employee at Annunciation School, KARE reported, adding that records show Westman’s mother retired from the school in 2021.

The station added it’s also believed that Westman attended the school for at least one year and that Westman had visited the school in the last week, while teachers prepared for the upcoming school year.

Westman allegedly shared a video to YouTube ahead of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church.

The clip shows an image of Jesus Christ inside a shooting target. In addition, in the video the alleged shooter giggles effetely while showcasing his arsenal on a bed — a rifle, a shotgun, a revolver, and a handgun — and displaying statements on his weapons that include, “Where is your God?”; “Kill Donald Trump”; “I’m the woker, baby … Why so queerious?”; “pain and hate”; “f**k you, eat s**t faggot”; “Get clapped.” At least three names also are written on one of the rifle magazines.

While playing with rifle rounds, the alleged shooter states in the video, “I’m sorry to my family, but that’s it — that’s the only people I’m sorry to. F**k those kids.”

At one point in the video, the alleged shooter also states, “I regret everything. I didn’t ask for life. You didn’t ask for death.”

The alleged shooter also shows an apparent manifesto in the video while stating, “I hope you can read that.” The apparent manifesto makes an appearance in another video and appears to have been written largely using the Cyrillic or Russian alphabet. Markowicz identified some of the writing on the weaponry as Russian, including a statement that is translated as, “I’m a terrorist.”

While leafing through the apparent manifesto in the second video, the alleged shooter pauses on a drawing of what appears to be the interior of Annunciation Catholic Church — then stabs the page with a knife. He concludes the video by stating, “That’s all I do: I fall, I break, and I die.”

According to police, the shooter barricaded the church doors from the outside with 2x4s and began opening fire into the church through the windows from the outside. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara called the shooter a “coward.”

Police said the shooter opened fire with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol and ultimately shot himself to death in the back of the church.

Minneapolis Police on Wednesday didn’t immediately reply to Blaze News’ request for confirmation of the shooter’s reported identity as Robin/Robert Westman nor of the accuracy of the report that the YouTube video is of Westman.

The tragedy appears to parallel the 2023 Covenant School massacre in numerous ways.

A 28-year-old woman stormed into a Presbyterian elementary school in Nashville on March 27 that year armed with a rifle, a pistol, and a handgun. The trans-identifying shooter proceeded to murder three 9-year-old children — Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs — along with three adults — teacher Cynthia Peak, custodian Mike Hill, and head of school Katherine Koonce.

The shooter’s manifesto was replete with criticisms of religion, and she similarly expressed a revulsion for innocence.

“Kill those kids!!! Those crackers Going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis and sports backpacks with their daddies mustangs and convertibles. F**k you little s**ts,” wrote the female shooter. “I wish to shoot your weak ass d**ks with your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little f****ts with your white privileges. F**k you f****ts.”

Editor’s note: This story was edited after publication to include a statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

This is a developing story.

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