NBC issued a correction Friday after having used male pronouns in its reporting to describe the trans shooter who killed two children and wounded 17 other individuals during Mass at a Catholic school in Minneapolis last Wednesday.
Mediaite re-posted NBC’s correction:
CORRECTION (Aug. 29, 2025, 8:05 a.m. ET): A previous version of this article used the wrong pronoun for the shooter. She used female pronouns.
Breitbart News reported that the trans shooter changed his name from “Robert” to “Robin” at age 17, thereafter identifying as a female.
The trans shooter left behind a video manifesto in which he said, “F*ck those kids” and, “Where’s your f*cking God now?”
The article referenced by NBC previously referred to the trans shooter using male pronouns.
FBI director Kash Patel made clear that his agency is investigating the Catholic school shooting as a “barbaric attack” carried out by “Robert Westman, the male subject.”
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