A former teacher of the trans shooter who killed two children and injured several others in Minneapolis said that Robin (Robert) Westman showed signs of self-harm years before the shooting took place. Westman blamed Mary Grace Westman, the shooter’s mother, as well as weed, for the incident.
Sarah Reely, a teacher who formerly taught at an all-boys Catholic high school that Westman attended, said in a Facebook post, “Back when Robin still went by the nickname Bob, I knew this was a kid who needed help. She was definitely odd, was really into furries and odd artwork and said some odd things, but wasn’t violent towards others to my knowledge. Being odd isn’t a red flag– I was an odd kid myself and have always had a heart for the odd kids. She did not fit in well, as one might imagine would happen to a queer kid in a conservative environment, so I intentionally made a point to build a relationship with this student. She loved art and created this weird little sculpture as a gift that I lost in one of my moves but I kept a picture of it just like I keep pictures of all the quirky little artworks my students make.”
The teacher went onto lament the reaction to the shooting from both the left and right as well as the polarization in the country, and added, “This is a big messy problem that I worry will NEVER be solved as long as our nation is so divided and everyone is so unwilling to bend, even as at-risk youth fall through the cracks and our children are being gunned down in their schools.”
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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