Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey addressed the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday by calling for gun control and speaking about transgender rights, hours after authorities confirmed that the gunman identified as a transgender woman. The attack left two children dead and at least 17 others injured.
“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Frey said at an afternoon press conference.
“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. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community has lost their sense of common humanity."
Are you freakin kidding me? pic.twitter.com/XsSoVaivZI— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2025
Frey urged the public to focus on the victims rather than the shooter’s identity, while also calling for legislative action on firearms.
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“Look, we need to be doing more than talking. It can’t just be words there needs to be action. When we have seen school shooting after school shooting. When we have seen church shootings by horrible actors,” Frey said.
“To recognize that we’ve got more guns in this country than we have people. And it’s on all of us to recognize that we can’t just say that this shouldn’t happen again and then allowed to happen again and again beyond that.”
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Frey says this is the time to “STAND UP” for the trans communityNO. FCK THAT. Stand up for the CATHOLIC FAMILIES whose kids were KlLLED by a trans shooter. pic.twitter.com/wvpvtdjw4N— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 27, 2025
The gunman, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, killed himself at the scene.
According to Fox News, Westman legally changed his name and began identifying as female in 2019.
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Court records show his mother, Mary Grace Westman, a former secretary at Annunciation Catholic School until her retirement in 2021, signed the paperwork for the legal name change.
Investigators said Westman left behind disturbing writings and posted a video manifesto online before the attack.
One page of the writings displayed a transgender pride flag sticker with the words “Defend equality” alongside a black AK-47 sticker.
In the video, which was later removed from YouTube, Westman can be seen flipping through pages of the manifesto, stabbing the document with a knife, muttering in different voices, and whispering, “Nothing makes me want to stop my plans.”
The suspected Minneapolis church shooter, Robin Westman, had a now-deleted YouTube channel with videos showing guns, a manifesto in Russian and English, and a church map. His content displayed extreme views, including pro-Russian, pro-Trans, pro-Communist, and anti-Trump,… pic.twitter.com/ESMCBj4H6M
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Westman carried out the shooting Wednesday morning during Mass at Assumption Catholic Church in Minneapolis.
Authorities said he opened fire through the church’s stained-glass windows, killing two children and injuring at least 17 others before taking his own life.
The writings posted by Westman also included threatening messages.
On one of the magazines shown in the manifesto video, Westman had written, “Where is your God?”
Law enforcement officials have not yet released a motive but confirmed they are reviewing the manifesto, online postings, and other materials recovered from the scene.
The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting Minneapolis police with the investigation.
The victims’ names have not been released pending notification of families.
Local officials confirmed grief counselors have been assigned to support students and parishioners affected by the shooting.
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ANOTHER USELESS MAYOR. WHO IN THE NAME OF GOD ELECTS THESE AMERICA TRAITORS. THIS GUY IS NOT WHAT OUR COUNTRY NEEDS. JUST ANOTHER ABOMINATION. THIS COUNTRY NEEDS STRONG GOD FEARING MEN. WE NEED TO VOTE WITH OUR BRAINS, OTHERWISE WE WILL BE GONE.
Why were there no responsible armed adults at or near the scene to put an end to this atrocity? We have a right to keep and bear arms in order to defend ourselves and others. We should also assume the responsibility of defending innocent lives against deranged or fanatic attackers.
I do agree, but who would have ever thought this deranged man would shoot the windows out? The front doors were locked, so as far as security, I think the church did what it could.
Nikita Khrushchev forecasted in1956 that Russia would bury America. His prediction was that America would be destroyed from internal causes. He appears to have had the idea that drugs, immorality and internal decay would eventually destroy our country. Radical leftists are insuring this internal destruction with an educational system that is deliberately and consciously undermining the greatness of America; a medical system that is systematically medicating our nation into dumbness and numbness; a medical and governmental system that is not addressing the serious mental health crisis…
Time has decimated the religious communities in our nation; time has created a nation where a limited minority is demanding that our nation abandon the economic engine that has driven our nation to greatness; a limited minority is trying to divide our country by race and a lack of respect for human life; and this limited minority is trying to drive our nation’s belief in God as the basis for our country.
The country is headed towards a bottomless cliff, you have Ilhan Omar, AOC etc. in congress, Mandami competing in NY, and there are other sick unhuman muslim´s also involved in politics and they all hate america. But we have so many ignorants un-americans that love these scums. That will keep leading america toward caos which is their real objective.
I am unfortunately a resident of Minnesota. Timpon and Frey are absolutely disgusting. The lie of trans and evil is forefront on their terrible agendas. If it wasn’t for my son’s remains buried here in MN, I would leave in a heartbeat. These horrible “government” idiots in MN are an absolute abomination; Walz, Ellison, Craig, Klobachar, Craig, Omar, Sullivan. They are all anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-life. Freaks and illegals are ALL they are concerned with. Not normal human beings. Lord, please help us down here!.
Send this Mayor to biology classes.Gid created male and female