On 27 August, Robin Westman, 23, killed two children and injured 18 after opening fire through stained-glass windows at the Annunciation Catholic School during a back-to-school mass. Westman, believed to have been trans, died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and did not appear to have a specific motive, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr suggested on Fox & Friends that anti-depressants and other medical drugs are driving trans people to commit mass shootings. A 2019 research review found most school shooters from 2000 to 2017 had not been treated with psychiatric medication and found no link between medication and shootings. A 2024 Johns Hopkins report found firearms killed more children and teens than any other cause.
On Wednesday (27 August), at around 8.30am, Robin Westman, 23, killed Fletcher Merkel, eight, and Harper Moyski, 10, and injured 18 others, after open firing through the stained glass windows of a church at the Annunciation Catholic School during a back-to-school mass filled with children. Westman, who is believed to have been trans, died at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and did not seem to have any specific motive, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara.
In comments made on Thursday (28 August), RFK Jr baselessly claimed that gun violence in US schools and churches was a new phenomenon, despite data going back decades. Data published by CNN US reveals school shooting data as far back as 2008. "There was no time in the past when people would walk into a church or a classroom and start shooting people. "And it's not really happening in other countries. It's happening here and we need to look at all the potential culprits that might be contributing to that," he claimed.
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