The mother of transgender Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman is now working with police in the investigation – just a day after she refused to cooperate and hired a criminal defense attorney in the wake of the deadly shooting that killed two young children and injured 18 other people.
Mary Grace Westman, who had worked at Annunciation Catholic School, the site of Wednesday morning’s attack by the deranged 23-year-old gunman, is now in contact with police – after initially failing to respond to their attempts to contact her, Minneapolis police said during a press conference Friday.
“I can tell you this, through working with our partners with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension of Minnesota, there has been conversation,” Minneapolis Assistant Chief Christopher Gaiters said.
“I am not at liberty to go any further than that.”
Mary Grace later retained criminal defense attorney Ryan Garry, Fox News reported Thursday night.
“She is completely distraught about the situation and has no culpability but is seeking an attorney to deal with calls like this,” he told the outlet.
The Post has reached out to Garry, who previously worked with controversial NFL player Colin Kaepernick in a lawsuit representing George Floyd protesters, represented rapper Desiigner when he was charged with indecent exposure on an aircraft in 2023 and secured a not guilty verdict for a decorated state trooper wrongfully accused of a sex crime, according to a Superlawyers profile.
Mary Grace signed Robin’s legal name change in 2020 — from Robert to Robin — in apparent support of his gender-identity change.
In a manifesto, a recording of which was posted to YouTube, Robin lamented that he had “brainwashed” themself into being trans.
“I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I’m tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself,” he wrote, according to a translation of the document conducted by The Post.
“I can’t cut my hair now as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. It just always gets in my way. I will probably chop it on the day of the attack,” he wrote.
Here’s what we know about the Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis
- Students had begun their first week of school at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, two days before the shooting.
- Robin Westman, a 23-year-old trans woman, opened fire through the stained glass windows on Wednesday morning during a celebratory back-to-school Mass filled with children.
- The shooting killed two children and injured at least 17 others, before Westman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Westman had written “kill Donald Trump” and “for the children” on gun magazines, and posted videos of a handwritten manifesto.
- Westman’s mother had worked at the school.
“I regret being trans. I wish I was a girl, I just know I cannot achieve that body with the technology we have today. I also can’t afford that,” Robin wrote.
Mary Grace worked as a secretary at Annunciation for five years until she retired in 2021, according to the church’s website.
Robin graduated from the school, which is less than a mile from the family’s small Tudor-style family home on a quiet tree-lined street.
He opened fire through the stained-glass windows Wednesday morning as scores of kids were attending a back-to-school Mass, killing two children and injuring 18 more, including 15 students, some of whom remain in critical condition.