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Moment cops descend on condo of Minneapolis school shooter's mom after she refused to cooperate with investigation as eerie previous police visits to her home emerges
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 29, 2025 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 08/29/2025 11:58:22 AM PDT by Morgana

Federal agents descended on a Florida condo belonging to the mother of transgender school shooter Robin Westman after she refused to cooperate with authorities investigating the deadly attack.

Plainclothes FBI agents could be seen in video footage arriving at Mary Grace Westman's Naples, Florida condominium and banging on the door as the windows and shades were shuttered.

When they received no answer at the front door, the agents scurried to the backdoor - but had no success there either, WINK News reports.

The feds were apparently not the only ones looking to speak with Westman on Wednesday, in the hours after the mass shooting. Deputy vehicles from the local Collier County Sheriff's Office were seen circling the Berkshire Lakes condominium complex.

The federal response to her home came as it was revealed police received disturbing calls from the family's Minneapolis home years earlier.

It is now believed Mary Grace fled the home on Wednesday, as police in Minneapolis, have not been able to speak to her concerning her 23-year-old child's horrific shooting rampage at the Annunciation Catholic Church.

Eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski were killed in the shooting and 18 others were injured when Westman opened fire during morning Mass.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: banglist; catholicschool; florida; robertwestmanmother; schoolshooting; shooting; westman

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Why they bothering his mom for? He was not a minor, he was grown. He was not living with her and she was thousands of miles away in Florida.
1 posted on 08/29/2025 11:58:22 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

If she raised him looney-troony, she may well be liable.


2 posted on 08/29/2025 12:01:02 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: Morgana

America is far too tolerant of crazies and killers of all sorts.


3 posted on 08/29/2025 12:04:30 PM PDT by allendale
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Why they bothering his mom for?

Perhaps they have probable cause that she knew something about the threat and kept it to herself because she aided and abetted her son being transgender.
4 posted on 08/29/2025 12:04:57 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Luircin

Does not matter how she raised him. Lots of parents have parenting styles we don’t agree with but their kids don’t grow up and go out and shoot up a school when they become adults.

What this guy did he did as an adult, he and he only is to blame.

Also where was his dad?


5 posted on 08/29/2025 12:05:54 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Morgana

You have to wonder if she bought the guns for him. If not someone did.


6 posted on 08/29/2025 12:07:43 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Morgana

Momma needs to answer questions. Period.


7 posted on 08/29/2025 12:07:56 PM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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“Perhaps they have probable cause that she knew something about the threat and kept it to herself because she aided and abetted her son being transgender. “

Wanna bet it comes out the FBI had this guy on “their radar”?

Wanna bet they probably knew more than his own family?


8 posted on 08/29/2025 12:08:21 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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There have been reports that she was not happy with her son’s efforts at “transition”. The thinking seems to be that he attacked the Catholic school where she used to work as a way of striking back at her, and her faith, for her failure to support his deviant behavior.

I think it’s odd that they are hounding her.


9 posted on 08/29/2025 12:10:18 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Society has no reward for following the rules any more)
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I somehow felt that the attack on the church/school was him really attacking his parents but I could not figure out why then they said his mom used to work there.

I have a feeling he was never trans just upset over his parents divorce.


10 posted on 08/29/2025 12:18:46 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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You have to wonder if she bought the guns for him. If not someone did.

He's 23. He could have, and probably did, buy his own guns.

11 posted on 08/29/2025 12:20:40 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Morgana

When Dylann Roof (who said he was a conservative) killed people in a black church in 1994, ‘the press’ even went so far as to interview his friends. The same should happen here - but it won’t because the press wants to give this killer a pass.


12 posted on 08/29/2025 12:22:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (DEMOCRAT HELLHOLE CITIES HAD 60 YEARS TO DEAL WITH THEIR CRIMINAL PROBLEMS. Why didn't they?)
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may be a good reason she didn’t answer the door?

send out the sheriff for a welfare call.


13 posted on 08/29/2025 12:23:03 PM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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(He’s 23. He could have, and probably did, buy his own guns)

Has there any reports on what this kid did for a living?


14 posted on 08/29/2025 12:25:21 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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Wanna bet it comes out the FBI had this guy on “their radar”?

Wanna bet they probably knew more than his own family?


    The interesting questions are :
  1. What did she know and when did she know it ?
  2. Why is it that the father, other family, friends, and associates have cooperated but the mother has fled instead ?
  3. Why are you defending this mother ?



The mother of the shooter who opened fire Wednesday on a Minneapolis Catholic school during morning Mass 
has hired a criminal defense attorney, as police say they've been unable to reach her.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara stated that Robin Westman's family has been cooperating with investigators; however, 
they have not yet located her mother, Mary Grace Westman. Records show that her residence is in Florida.

He said investigators have done dozens of interviews with the shooter’s family, friends and associates, 
and have talked to the shooter's father.

"I know we have not been successful in talking to the shooter’s mother yet at this time," 
O’Hara said at a news conference Thursday.

Mary Grace Westman's attorney, Ryan Garry, told NBC News on Thursday that he had no comment at this time. 
The FBI and police department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.

15 posted on 08/29/2025 12:26:14 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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“”Why they bothering his mom for? He was not a minor, he was grown. He was not living with her and she was thousands of miles away in Florida.””

Why is she refusing to cooperate with the authorities? Most parents would bend over backwards to cooperate... if their son had murdered anyone... especially considering that he targeted the same school where she worked.


16 posted on 08/29/2025 12:29:16 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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Why wouldn’t LEOs want to speak to ANY murderer’s parents to get basic info? They need to get as much information as possible.


17 posted on 08/29/2025 12:31:26 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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“he and he only is to blame”

Re the actual shooting, that’s true.

But if she knew or suspected he would do something dangerous, and didn’t warn anyone, then she could be a conspirator or similar.


18 posted on 08/29/2025 12:34:18 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

He legally bought the guns himself


19 posted on 08/29/2025 12:36:10 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: ClearCase_guy

It was reported that she was supportive in some of his trans crap, e.g., signing off on his name change when he was a minor

When are parents going to stop accepting the fact that their kids are terrorists, and stop faciltating the nonsense? Kids never are told NO! any more.


20 posted on 08/29/2025 12:38:07 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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