Newly released surveillance footage shows Robin Westman, the Annunciation Church shooter who killed two children and injured more than a dozen others, browsing guns at a Minnesota shop just days before the deadly rampage.
Calm and Friendly Demeanor
The video from Frontiersman Sports in St. Louis Park, obtained by KSTP, shows Westman entering the shop around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23. Wearing a T-shirt reading “a place for well-being” and his hair tied back in a ponytail, Westman appeared calm and sociable.
Store owner Kory Krause said his employees described Westman as “friendly” and “jovial” during the 40 minutes he spent looking at pistols and a rifle.
“What could I have done? What could I have caught? There was nothing,” Krause said. “Should we have discriminated against him because of a weird T-shirt and a ponytail? No. We get lots of long-haired guys with a ponytail.”
“There were no red flags,” he stressed. “He looked like any other customer.”
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No Purchases Linked to the Attack
Krause confirmed Westman did not buy any of the weapons or ammunition used in the