“There was a massacre in Minneapolis just hours ago as Catholic children attended their very first school mass, walking into the pews, sitting down with their teachers, sitting down with their school administrators, their principal, and others,” Posobiec said in his opening monologue. “They had just started school a couple of days ago on Monday. This morning as they sat down for their school mass at 8:15, mass had just begun.”
He described the chaos as the gunman opened fire from outside the church. “Shots rang out, shattering stained glass windows that were up along the beautiful walls of this church, the Annunciation Parish there in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We’re told dozens, possibly as many as 50 or 100 rounds rang out, multiple firearms. Dozens of children hit, and two, ages eight and ten, have now become martyrs to our Lord Jesus Christ, and they are in heaven now with God.”
Posobiec identified the suspected shooter as Robert Westman, adding, “He’s burning in hell now, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene, never entered the church, stayed outside, as far as we can tell, and was reportedly a transgender, obvious extremist.”
Poso said disturbing evidence has already surfaced online: “There’s YouTube videos. There’s a manifesto. There were plans, specific diagrams talking about attacking this church, talking about, and this is very disturbing, but we’re not going to shy away from it, meticulously plotting the murder of Catholic children, the murder of children whose lives were being dedicated to our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“And if anyone is telling you that this is not demonic, if anyone is telling you that this is not spiritual warfare that we are engaged in right now, then they are not paying attention,” he said. “This is a spiritual war. They are coming for our children.”
He added that the tragedy felt especially personal. “My children are in Catholic school right now as I’m saying this, so this is something that deeply affects us personally and anyone who has their kids in a Christian school or a religious school of any sort. This needs to stop. We don’t have to live like this. Enough is enough, and it is time to do the things which we know are necessary.”
Following his opening remarks, Posobiec brought on Liz Collin, investigative reporter with Alpha News, who revealed that her family once had direct ties to the school. “Actually, this is the school where my son attended preschool, Annunciation in Minneapolis. Thankfully, we’ve since moved. But it’s absolutely horrific to see these little faces and their parents, what unfolded this morning.”
Collin said the shooter had been identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who killed himself in the school parking lot after the attack. “From what we can find online with court records, it looks to be that Robert was 16 or 17 at the time that his family petitioned the court to have his name changed legally to Robin,” she explained.
Collin also noted that the suspect’s family had connections to the parish. “His mom appears to have worked at Annunciation, appears she retired several years ago back in 2021. So there is some sort of connection to this school.”
She described the shooter’s online presence as chilling. “I will say that his manifesto, we viewed that as really quite troubling. There’s a lot to look at online here. I think most of it has been taken down by YouTube and other social media sites at this point. But absolutely horrific what has taken place.”
The toll, she emphasized, was devastating. “We know two children, again, ages eight and 10, were killed. We know 17 others were injured. We’re hearing that six of them are in critical condition at Hennepin County Medical Center. Two adults, we know, were also shot. But primarily, this was an attack on school-aged children attending mass this morning in Minneapolis.”
