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(NewsNation) — A erstwhile person says she noticed reddish flags successful the Minneapolis schoolhouse shooter's behaviour arsenic acold backmost arsenic seventh grade, erstwhile the shooter did Nazi salutes successful people and "verbally abused" friends.
Josefina Sanchez said she was affable with Robin Westman, who killed two children and injured 18 different people Wednesday, erstwhile the 2 of them attended St. Agnes School successful St. Paul, Minnesota.
"He was precise erratic. Red flags each astir but I didn't know, due to the fact that I was conscionable successful the seventh grade," Sanchez said of her erstwhile classmate who attacked children and adults arsenic they prayed astatine a Mass astatine Annunciation Catholic School.
"He would [Nazi] salute. He would constitute codification and was precise verbally abusive, similar towards me, and his closest feline friends. Very verbally abuse."
No signs of sex dysmorphia: person of shooter
Westman was not bullied and acceptable successful with the remainder of his cohort successful the seventh grade, according to Sanchez. She does not retrieve him arsenic idiosyncratic who got into trouble.
"I wouldn't accidental similar the astir friendliest [sic], but helium had a bully broadside to him, and would speech to different people. So I don't cognize wherever it could've travel from," she said.
Federal officials identified the shooter arsenic transgender and tribunal documents amusement the shooter changed their sanction from Robert to Robin astatine 17 years old.
Sanchez said she "never" saw immoderate signs that Westman was struggling with accepting his sex astatine immoderate point, and that it was traumatizing to recognize she knew the shooter.
Shooter had 'heart afloat of hate'
Westman died by termination aft opening occurrence connected the religion afloat of students. Investigators described the shooter arsenic having a “deranged fascination” with erstwhile schoolhouse shooters and watching children suffer.
The shooter’s writings besides described hatred toward different groups, and Joseph Thompson, the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, said the hatred targeted "almost each radical imaginable."
"In short, the shooter appeared to hatred each of us. The shooter's bosom was afloat of hate," Thompson said.
"There appears to beryllium lone 1 radical that the shooter didn't hate, 1 radical of radical who the shooter admired. That radical were the schoolhouse shooters and wide murderers that are notorious successful this country."
Investigators are examining hundreds of pieces of grounds to find wherefore the gunman targeted Annunciation Catholic School.
