The new video appeared, as the students shows inside the Annunciation Church, which fled for fear after the shots killed two people and injured dozens. Video obtained NBC News It shows children in school uniforms that avoid the building. Some can see how they cover their ears, while others jump over the church benches in a desperate attempt to escape.
The attacker, identified as 23 -year -old Robin Westman, fired on Wednesday morning in the Church of the Annunciation of Dozens of Shots, where children participated in worship.
The Federal Investigation Office, which leads the case, described the incident as “the act of domestic terrorism and a crime of hatred focused on Catholics,” the BBC said.
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Disturbing content in “Manifest”
The police said they found a “manifest”, which the suspect disclied at the time of shooting. Before the Westman attack, he reportedly recorded several YouTube clips. The boss O’Hara said that investigators “search the” Manifest “video… to try to create a motive.”
The videos, later removed from the platform, showed weapons carved by racial slots, anti -Semitic phrases and a written threat to death against US President Donald Trump.
In one clip Westman expressed admiration for six bulk shooters, including Adam Lanza, who murdered 26 people at the Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012. Another video showed phrases like “Psycho Killer” and “suck on it!”, Along with anti -Semitic news like “6 million is not enough”.
Westman also said that he was suffering from depression and suicidal thoughts, but he was not a clear motive.
Parents of the students killing in the shooting share emotional pleas
Jesse Merkel, the father of an eight -year -old Fletcher, who was killed on Wednesday during the shooting, issued a family statement outside the church aimed at a shooter. He remembered his son as a caring child with passion for fishing, cooking and sport.
“We would never have been allowed to keep him, talk to him, play with him and watch him grow in an amazing young man who was on his way to become,” Merkel quoted the BBC.
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