Who Is Robin Westman? Minneapolis School Shooter Named After Attack Videos Emerge

Last Updated:August 27, 2025, 23:54 IST

Robin Westman went by Robert Westman and his mother was an employee at the school.

In this image shared by Colin Rugg, journalist and co-owner of Trending Politics, the photo of Minneapolis shooting suspect Robin Westman is pictured. (IMAGE: @CollinRugg/X)

The shooter who killed two children and injured at least 17 others has been identified as Robin Westman and police are investigating a series of YouTube videos shared on his account hours before the shooting, according to a report by the New York Post, which cited law enforcement forces.

Minneapolis-based broadcaster KARE11 said citing law enforcement sources Robin Westman earlier went by Robert Westman and mother was an employee at the school and that he changed his name to Robin in 2020, when he was 17.

A separate report by Daily Mail, citing a local US news outlet KTSP, confirmed that the shooter was ID’d as Robin Westman.

Images of the shooter were widely shared on social media with reports of him sharing a manifesto and content seen to against US President Donald Trump.

Photo of the shooter was shared by Colin Rugg, journalist and co-owner of Trending Politics, on his X account.

News18 could not independently verify the authenticity of the videos and photos shared on social media.

“This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping. The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible," Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told reporters, according to Reuters.

It should be noted that at the time of writing this article O’Hara himself did not identify the shooter.

The shooting occurred two days after school started at Annunciation Catholic School, a private elementary school with about 395 students connected to a Roman Catholic church in a residential area in the southeast part of Minnesota’s largest city. Local TV showed parents ducking under yellow police crime tape and leading students out of the school.

At least two of the chapel doors had been barricaded from the outside using 2" x 4" planks, O’Hara said.

Officials said the shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol and did not have an extensive criminal history.

The Reuters report also highlighted that law enforcement was investigating multiple online videos to determine if they were posted by the shooter, according to two sources who spoke to the news agency on condition of anonymity.

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