How To Stay Safe During An Active Shooter Event.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He's a pretty well-spoken guy. I'd like to play what he's had to say. |
| 0:04.0 | My name is Brian O'Hara, B-R-I-A-N, O-A-A-A-A-A-I-R-A-I-R-A. I am the Minneapolis Police Chief. |
| 0:12.7 | Good afternoon and thank you all for your patience as we continue to gather the facts in this investigation |
| 0:18.7 | into this truly unthinkable tragedy that happened |
| 0:23.3 | here earlier today. I want to make sure that we are providing the most accurate information |
| 0:29.6 | possible, particularly as we speak around our victims. At this point, we know we have a total |
| 0:36.0 | of 19 victims from this tragedy. |
| 0:39.3 | Two were young children, ages 8 and 10, that were sitting in the pews at Mass when they were shot and killed. |
| 0:47.3 | They were pronounced deceased on the scene. |
| 0:50.3 | There were another 14 children between the ages of 6 and 15 that were injured by gunfire. |
| 0:57.7 | There were also three adults in their 80s that were parishioners here, attending mass, that were also shot in this incident. |
| 1:07.3 | The families of all of the children that have been affected have been notified. |
| 1:12.6 | The coward that shot these victims took his own life in the rear of the church. |
| 1:18.6 | That coward has been identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, no prior criminal history. |
| 1:26.6 | As to the weapons used to perpetrate this horrific attack, |
| 1:31.3 | there was a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. All three had been lawfully purchased by the shooter. |
| 1:39.3 | At this stage, we believe that the shooter had acted alone. |
| 1:45.0 | There is no indication of other suspects directly involved in carrying out this attack. |
| 1:51.0 | Our investigators are working with other agencies in the process of executing four search warrants. |
| 1:58.0 | One is for the church itself where this crime occurred. The other three are |
| 2:03.0 | residences nearby in the metro that are related to this shooter. Additional firearms |
| 2:10.5 | are being recovered from those three residential locations as we speak. We are also aware of a manifesto that the shooter had |
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