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While police have yet to say what led to WednesdayAs mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school, that left two children dead and 17 injured, before the gunman taking his own life, reports have told of the gunman attending the school along with his mother, herself a devout Catholic,
working at the entity until her retirement in 2021.

Mary Grace Westman, Robin WestmanAs mother, worked as a parish secretary
at Annunciation School for five years before retiring in 2021.

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A Facebook post from the Church of the Annunciation dated August 16, 2021, honored her retirement, stating, aChurch of the Annunciation Aug 16, 2021.
On Sunday we honored Mary Grace Westman who is retiring from Annunciation.
She has provided such wonderful hospitality, friendship and compassion to
all who gathered for the last five years at Annunciation. You will be
missed! Congratulations on your retirement!A

According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, a tearful Mary Grace Westman
answered a reporterAs call but said she did not know whether her child was
the shooter. The gunmanAs father, James Westman was reported to be inconsolable upon police arriving at the familyAs home which they cordoned
off and commenced a search, where additional weapons, beyond the pistol, shotgun and rifle used in Wednesday morningAs carnage were found.

Mary Grace is a devout Catholic and past anti-abortion activist who once
wore a necklace of crucifixes to protest outside a Minneapolis Planned Parenthood clinic in March 2005, Naples Daily reported.

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According to the publication, Collier County Property Records show Mary
Grace Westman having bought an East Naples condo, west of Santa Barbara Boulevard and south of Interstate 75, in 2022.

A yearbook obtained by CNN showed Westman, who was previously known as
Robert Westman, graduating from Annunciation CatholicAs grade school in
2017.

In her own school yearbook when they attended Annunciation Catholic grade school, Westman advised fellow students to work aharder, faster,
strongerA.

Quoting the Daft Punk song under the aadvice for younger studentsA
section, Westman wrote the lyrics: aWork it, make it / Do it, makes us / Harder, better / Faster, strongerA.

Robert Westman reportedly changed his name to Robin in 2020 when he was
still a minor, at age 17, a change that required his motherAs signature, according to a Minnesota government document shared on social media.
Westman changed his name because he aidentifies as a female and wants her
name to reflect that identification,A the application stated.

Mary Grace Westman has shared family photos on Instagram, including a
picture from more than six years ago showing Robin Westman in a red T-
shirt, along with others. The caption she wrote was: aLove my kids.A

Another photo showed Robin Westman and others in Lake Orion, Michigan,
with her wording: aCousin fun !!A

Rebelling against religious doctrine and torn by gender identity
Leading up to WednesdayAs mass shooting, Westman had been in the throes of
a gender identity crisis.

aI donAt want to dress girly all the time but I guess sometimes I really
like it. I know I am not a woman but I definitely donAt feel like a man,A
she wrote in a 4 page document believed to be the Annunciation shooterAs manifesto. aI really like my outfit. I look pretty, smart and modest. I
think I want to wear something like this for my shooting.A

While authorities had yet to say what led up to the shooting and Westman targeting his former school, theories online emerged that the 23 year old struggling with religious indoctrination and his familyAs belief system
amid his own existential crises violently revolting and seeking to aend
the pain,A and afinally take my own life,A in comments recovered from the alleged manifesto.

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