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(NewsNation) — In the aftermath of a schoolhouse shooting successful Minneapolis that near two children dormant and 17 radical injured, erstwhile Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said determination are steps schools tin instrumentality to amended safety.
"The country, and section schoolhouse districts included, person taken steps to harden schools, but they haven’t gone truthful acold arsenic to crook them into fundamentally subject facilities, nor should we," Pawlenty told "NewsNation Live" connected Thursday. "But I bash deliberation determination are immoderate common-sense steps, partially for schools ... to person the quality to person carnal safety, possibly information unit connected site, and that could help."
Though helium cautioned those efforts are not a cure-all and whitethorn not person prevented this tragedy, helium said galore schools person made advancement portion others inactive lag.
Pawlenty besides emphasized the request for behavioral menace assessments and further intelligence wellness screenings.
"There's question afoot successful this state astir however bash we code isolated, angry, prone to convulsive mentally sick people, and it's going to instrumentality immoderate resources," helium said. "It's going to instrumentality much assertive screening mechanisms successful schools, successful hospitals, with instrumentality enforcement successful the community, and we're conscionable not doing it. We're not doing it, astir apt one-tenth of what we should beryllium successful this country.
"It's not conscionable astir shootings," helium added. "It's astir the intelligence wellness and well-being of our state and our radical much broadly."
Minnesota gunman had ‘manifesto’ but nary ‘specific’ motive
The shooter, identified by authorities arsenic 23-year-old Robin Westman, died connected the scene.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told NewsNation connected Thursday that authorities executed hunt warrants astatine the religion and 3 homes, but thing recovered was adjuvant successful identifying a “specific motive.”
He said authorities and national authorities were moving to comb done hundreds of pages of documents from Westman, uncovering “some precise disturbing writings, and a full batch of hate” truthful far.
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.
