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Fox News host Jesse Watters. (Jemal Countess/Tribune News Service) The conservative rhetoric doesn’t square with the statistics. According to Gun Violence Archive, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that collects data from more than 7,500 law enforcement sources daily, only 1.1% of mass-shooting suspects over the past decade were transgender, roughly proportional with the overall population of transgender people. Data gathered by …

Families of children killed in Minneapolis church shooting call for healing, change  MPR News Minneapolis church shooting audio captures first responders rushing to chaotic scene in deadly attack  Fox News Parents identify victims of Minneapolis school shooting: ‘Our hearts are broken’  The Guardian What we know about Minnesota school shooting suspect Robin Westman  ABC News She smelled smoke, heard a bang and then saw …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The bad news began in the early days of summer and has never seemed to end in this corner of the Upper Midwest. There was the deadly attack on state politicians in the Minneapolis suburbs. The gunfire that erupted during a gathering at a popular city picnic spot, leaving one person dead and five injured. On Tuesday …

RFK Jr. renews attack on antidepressants after church shooting  Axios Minnesota senator tells RFK Jr. ‘stop peddling bulls‑‑‑’ on mass shootings  The Hill RFK Jr., without evidence, targets psychiatric meds in wake of Minneapolis mass shooting  The Seattle Times RFK Jr. Offers Bonkers Explanation for School Shootings  yahoo.com Playbook: The RFK Jr. revolution  Politico Source link

More than seven years before Robin Westman opened fire on a Catholic school as Mass was underway, killing two children and injuring 17 more worshippers, police were called to a townhouse in the Twin Cities suburb where she lived with her mother. The heavily redacted police report NBC News obtained from the police department in Eagan, Minnesota, is dated Jan. …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same school and was “obsessed” with the idea of killing children, authorities said Thursday. The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, fired 116 rifle casings through stained-glass windows while the children …

MINNEAPOLIS — While a motive in the Annunciation Catholic School mass shooting remains under investigation, police said they’ve confirmed that Robin Westman, the 23-year-old suspect, had attended the school, and Westman’s mother previously worked in the parish. Police determined that Westman “harbored a whole lot of hate towards a wide variety of people and groups of people,” and also “had …

Additional victim identified in mass church shooting, bringing total to 2 dead, 18 injured  kare11.com Robin Westman: Police examine material possibly linked to Minneapolis church shooting suspect  CNN FBI director calls Minneapolis school shooting ‘barbaric’ domestic terrorism with anti-religious motives  Fox News Minneapolis shooting live updates: 2 children killed, 18 injured at Catholic school; FBI investigating attack as hate crime  yahoo.com What we know …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis, the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year. “For you darkness itself is not dark, and night shines as the day,” a church member read to some 200 students Wednesday morning as sun …

Authorities are working to learn the motive of the shooter who fired into a Minneapolis Catholic school’s church during Mass, killing two children and injuring 17 worshippers. Officials identified the shooter as Robin Westman, 23, and said Westman was found dead in the parking lot from what they believe was a self-inflicted gunshot. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said authorities …