The shooting of Catholic school children in the US State of Minnesota yesterday is being investigated as anti-Catholic terrorism.
In a post on X, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, said the FBI “is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics [1]”.
The shooter — armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol — approached the side of the church at Annunciation Catholic School and shot through the windows toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass just before 8:30 a.m.
There were 2 fatalities, an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old. In addition, 14 children and 3 adults were injured.
The shooter has been named as Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman who identified as transgender.
He posted a YouTube video before the attack, which showed an anti-Christian motivation [2] for the murders and an affinity for mass shooters, Satanism, antisemitism, and racism.