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(NewsNation) — As investigators enactment to uncover a motive successful a Minneapolis shooting that near two children dormant and 17 radical injured, constabulary Chief Brian O’Hara told NewsNation helium understands the public’s request for answers. However, helium said the calamity whitethorn ne'er marque sense.
O’Hara told "Morning successful America" connected Thursday that investigators person recovered “very disturbing writings” but nary wide motive.
"A fig of things they’ve seen truthful acold are truly immoderate precise disturbing writings and a full batch of hate. Hatred towards a full batch of radical and assorted antithetic groups," helium said. "We person not been capable to place a circumstantial motive, a circumstantial reason, oregon circumstantial triggering event."
O'Hara added, "Unfortunately, this does look to beryllium what is each excessively communal successful our county, which is this classical pathway to unit of conscionable a deranged idiosyncratic who looks to origin wide unit for their ain idiosyncratic notoriety."
Minnesota gunman had ‘manifesto’
The shooter, identified by authorities arsenic 23-year-old Robin Westman, died connected the country from what constabulary judge was a self-inflicted gunshot.
The weapons utilized successful the attack were purchased legally, and weapon magazines had phrases specified arsenic “Kill Donald Trump” and “Where is your God?” written connected them, according to police.
Authorities “have not been capable to place a circumstantial motive, a circumstantial crushed oregon a circumstantial triggering event” that would’ve caused Westman to people the school, helium told NewsNation.
Westman, who legally changed names successful 2017 from Robert to Robin, had “some benignant of manifesto that was timed to travel retired connected YouTube,” O’Hara said Wednesday.
That video has since been taken down, and investigators were examining the footage.
Brooke Shafer and Libbey Dean contributed to this report.
