{"id":119347,"date":"2025-08-29T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119347\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:44:07","slug":"minneapolis-gunman-robin-westman-blamed-massacre-on-mom-warning-him-not-to-change-gender-and-discouraged-people-from-letting-their-kids-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119347\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis gunman Robin Westman blamed massacre on mom warning him not to change gender\u2014 and discouraged people from letting their kids transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deranged\u00a0Minneapolis gunman Robin Westman<\/a>\u00a0blamed his mother for his decision to kill \u201cso many people\u201d at a Catholic school after she warned him that he would regret transitioning to female \u2014 while in the next line in his manifesto, he discouraged people from letting their kids change gender.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0his disturbed manifesto,\u00a0<\/a>Westman, 23, claimed to be anxious about a visit from his mother in an entry dated July 1, where he recalled her concerns about him transitioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour words, mother, made me stay in my discomfort unable to ask for help to avoid admitting defeat. You were right mama, but the way you handled it led me to wanting to kill so so many people,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0his manifesto,\u00a0deranged Minneapolis Catholic school gunman Robin Westman, 23, claimed to be anxious about a visit from his mother in an entry dated July, where he recalled her warnings about transitioning. Facebook \/ Mary Grace Westman<\/p>\n

In the rambling writings, the crazed gunman also appeared to blame transitioning and smoking marijuana for his violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cGender and weed fucked up my head,\u201d he claimed. \u201cI wish I never tried experimenting with either. Don\u2019t let your kids smoke weed or change gender until they are like seventeen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Much of the manifesto is written in a homespun code that uses Cyrillic characters and English phonetic words, which have been translated by The Post.<\/p>\n

\tHere’s what we know about the Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis<\/p>\n

The July 1 entry included second thoughts Westman was having regarding his gender and worries about what would change during the meeting with\u00a0his mother, Mary Grace Westman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers work at the scene of a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 27, 2025. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was first out to my mother, she was VERY antagonistic. She really made me hate myself and think I will never be good enough,\u201d Westman wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember one day, she said something like, \u2018In the future you will look back and feel ridiculous about who you feel like you are inside. You will regret this.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWell guess what mom?! I regret being born,\u201d the gunman added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was first out to my mother, she was VERY antagonistic. She really made me hate myself and think I will never be good enough,\u201d Westman wrote. Facebook \/ Mary Grace Westman<\/p>\n

Mary Grace had signed Westman\u2019s legal name change in 2020 \u2014\u00a0 from Robert to Robin \u2014 in apparent support of his gender-identity change. Westman was 17 at the time.<\/p>\n

Mary Grace, who once worked at the Annunciation Catholic Church school that Robin graduated from, is now speaking with police after previously refusing to cooperate with the investigation into why\u00a0her long-troubled, hate-filled son unleashed<\/a>\u00a0the heinous attack at his alma mater, investigators said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here is the latest on the mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school:<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you this, through working with our partners with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension of Minnesota there has been conversation, and I am not at liberty to go any further than that,\u201d Minneapolis Assistant Chief Christopher Gaiters said during a press conference Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0mom has retained criminal defense attorney Ryan Garry, according to\u00a0Fox News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the antagonistic feelings displayed in the manifesto, Westman penned a separate letter to his family and friends telling them how much he loved them and how his parents shouldn\u2019t blame themselves with how he turned out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Westman admitted in a series of disturbing online videos to regretting being brainwashed into \u201cbeing trans.\u201d Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cYou did not fail me, you gave me so much. I truly appreciate the love you have given me,\u201d Westman said to his parents. \u201cI feel I was raised to be a good person.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve kept those traits of empathy, self-sacrifice, and good character. Please do not think you have failed as parents,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He admitted in a series of disturbing online videos that he regretted being brainwashed into \u201cbeing trans,\u201d and planned to cut his long hair before unleashing his carnage, in which he planned to kill far more kids.<\/p>\n

Jen Labanowski, her daughter Lucy (R), and her daughter\u2019s friend Cece Degnan (C), light candles at a memorial for victims of yesterday\u2019s shooting in front of Annunciation Catholic Church on August 28, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Westman also wrote that he could neither stop smoking \u2014 which he suspected without apparent evidence had given him cancer \u2014 nor the attack that claimed two lives and left 18 others wounded at the Annunciation Church on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish I could stop vaping but I can\u2019t! If I could stop vaping, I could stop myself from doing this attack, but I just don\u2019t want to. Stopping vaping will not get rid of my cancer, nor will it make these fantasies go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The twisted gunman eventually put his plan into motion on Wednesday, when he opened fire through the church\u2019s stained glass windows during morning Mass, killing an 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old\u00a0Harper Moysk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Westman unloaded\u00a0116 rifle rounds<\/a>\u00a0and turned the gun on himself before authorities could reach him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deranged\u00a0Minneapolis gunman Robin Westman\u00a0blamed his mother for his decision to kill \u201cso many people\u201d at a Catholic school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,35501,76893,6429,3,30020,452,453,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-119347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-mass-shootings","12":"tag-minneapolis-school-shooting-2025","13":"tag-minnesota","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-school-shootings","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}