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Authorities in Minneapolis<\/a> revealed more details about the motive of Annunciation Catholic Church shooter Robin Westman, with the city\u2019s police chief saying that “ultimately the purpose of the shooter’s actions was to obtain notoriety for the shooter themselves.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brian O\u2019Hara made the remark after telling reporters that “no evidence ever be able to make sense” of the mass shooting<\/a> that left two children dead and 18 others injured Wednesday. However, he said, the Minneapolis Police Department “will do our best to determine and identify a specific motive.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“What we have seen so far is this is an individual who, unfortunately, like so many other mass shooters that we have seen in this country too often and around the world, had some deranged fascination with previous mass shootings and very disturbing writings that demonstrate hatred towards many different individuals and different groups of people,” O\u2019Hara said. “And he fantasized about the plans of other mass shooters.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Acting United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joe Thompson said Thursday that Westman left behind “hundreds of pages of writings, writings that describe the shooter’s plan, writings that describe the shooter’s mental state, and, more than anything, writings that describe the shooter’s hate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH SHOOTER’S MOTHER REFUSES TO TALK TO POLICE AFTER DEADLY ATTACK ON CHILDREN<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The shooter expressed hate towards almost every group unmanageable. The shooter expressed hate towards Black people. The shooter expressed hate towards Mexican people. The shooter expressed hate towards Christian people. The shooter expressed hate towards Jewish people,” Thompson continued. “In short, the shooter appeared to hate all of us. The shooter’s heart was full of hate. There appears to be only one group that the shooter didn’t hate. One group of people who the shooter admired. That group were the school shooters and mass murderers that are notorious in this country.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thompson also said Westman, “more than anything,” was focused on killing children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The shooter was obsessed with the idea of killing children. The shooter saw the attack as a way to target our most vulnerable among us, while they were at their most vulnerable at school and at church,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mass shooting claimed the lives of Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Fifteen of the injured<\/a> are children between the ages of six and 15. Three of those injured are adults in their 80s,” O\u2019Hara said Thursday. “Those who remain hospitalized need all of our support as we continue to pray for a speedy recovery for all of our victims.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

GRIEVING FATHER CALLS MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTER A ‘COWARD’ WHO TOOK LIFE OF HIS 8-YEAR-OLD SON FLETCHER DURING MASS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara also mentioned how Westman had previously attended Mass at the Annunciation Catholic Church and that his mother “was an employee of the parish previously for some time.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, he added, “we have not identified a triggering event or a specific grievance against the church that you could point to, to say \u2018this is the reason for why this happened.\u2019”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church draws parallels to the Covenant School massacre<\/a> \u2013 a targeted March 2023 attack on a Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., by a transgender shooter who killed three third-graders and three adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The stark reality is that mass shooters read about and study their predecessors before committing their own carnage,” Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We know the shooter in the Covenant case did, as she planned her attack over a period of many months. She went through firearms training during that period without setting off alarms. She had no adverse contact with law enforcement prior to the day if the shooting,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“After a lengthy investigation, the shooter’s quest for notoriety was deemed to be the motive,” Aaron added. “She wanted her bedroom to be preserved and movies and books to be made about her. That is why it is so important to make the victims the focus of public statements in the days, weeks, and years after these horrible crimes. Most people, especially law enforcement, do not\u00a0 want to publicly focus on the shooter’s twisted planning so that it does not influence others.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Jon Street contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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