The shooter who opened fire on the Minneapolis Catholic school children while they attended a church service published two videos before the Wednesday attack in which someone stabs a drawing of the inside of a church with a knife, glorifies mass killers and fixates on school shootings.
The videos were posted to YouTube by an account attributed to Robin Westman and include racist, antisemitic and anti-Christian phrases and symbols, as well as calls to kill President Donald Trump and destroy the state of Israel.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara said police are still trying to determine a motive for the attack that killed two children and injured 17 other children and adults.
O’Hara confirmed that the videos were posted by Westman, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene.
The person, whose face is not shown in the videos, seemed to outline plans for the shootings at Annunciation Church.
“I can’t wait to kill and kill and kill and kill,” the person says repeatedly in one roughly 20-minute video. Another frequent refrain: “I fall apart, I break and I die.”
In another video, a person displays four guns, a bevy of ammunition, a letter to family and friends, and clothing the narrator apparently planned to wear “tomorrow.”
Both videos repeatedly reference mass killers. In one, the person labeled guns and weapon magazines on a bed with the names of at least 10 mass killers, including the mosque shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand, an extremist attacker in Norway, and the man who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.