The mother of church shooter Robin Westman quickly left her Florida home for Minneapolis just hours before the FBI arrived to conduct a raid, as reported exclusively by the Daily Mail.
Mary Grace Westman, aged 67, departed her Naples condominium on Wednesday to catch a flight back to Minnesota. This happened on the same day that FBI agents were seen at her residence, seeking to have a conversation with her.
She was so panicked she phoned a neighbor believing she had left the place unsecured, according to a police report obtained by Daily Mail.
A concerned neighbor reached out to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, requesting a welfare check on the Westman’s three-bedroom condo, located on the ground floor of a modest building, according to the report.
The mom also left her blue-gray Mini Cooper S parked under an awning, as revealed in Daily Mail photos.
Mary Grace, who retired in 2021 from her position at Minneapolis’s Annunciation Catholic Church, has obtained legal representation following the incident where her transgender child took the lives of two children and injured 17 others.
She has hired criminal defense lawyer Ryan Garry, a recognized attorney known for handling cases related to NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s protests following George Floyd’s death in 2020.
Pictured with her sisters Nancy, Margaret, and Diane, Mary Westman is seen leaving her Florida apartment for the airport on the day of the tragic event, as revealed exclusively by the Daily Mail.
Mary worked at the school where her transgender child Robin shot two children dead and injured 18 others on Wednesday
Robin Westman was identified as the deranged killer who opened fire on Wednesday
It comes as school employees at Annunciation Catholic School, where Mary was a former staffer and Robin opened fire on Wednesday, offered details into the would-be killer’s childhood.
Teachers said that Mary struggled to accept Robin’s decision to come out as transgender around five years ago, and confided in school officials that she didn’t know how to handle it.
‘She said, “I don’t know how I feel about this.” I think she was struggling with her Catholic faith,’ a former school employee told NBC News.
They said that Westman was a lonely child at school who did not seem to have any friends when she taught the killer, who was then known as Robert, in the eighth grade.
The teacher added that Westman was often disruptive in her classroom at Annunciation Catholic School, the same school where the killer opened fire on Wednesday morning.
Mary, the mother of shooter Robin Westman, 23, was said to have confided in teachers that she was unsure how to handle it when the would-be killer came out as transgender around five years ago
Teachers said that Westman was a lonely child at school who did not seem to have any friends, and had behavior problems that often saw Mary (seen together) called into the school
They described the student’s behavior as escalating to the point where Mary would be called in to speak with the principal, and she ‘appeared nervous’ in some meetings.
She was mentioned numerous times in Robin’s twisted manifesto left online before the shooting, including one where the killer wondered how she missed the red flags in his behavior.
‘I feel like my mom would have seen it coming due to my rocky past with violent threats,’ he wrote.
‘The other day my stepmom… said she could feel a ‘dark energy’ around me… if only you know.’
The mother has reportedly sought legal counsel out of an abundance of caution in the aftermath of the tragedy.
‘She is completely distraught about the situation and has no culpability but is seeking an attorney to deal with calls like this,’ Attorney Ryan Garry told Fox News.
Police revealed in a press conference Thursday that they haven’t heard anything from Westman’s mom.
‘We have not been successful in talking to the shooter’s mother,’ Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said. The police chief did not provide any further details.
