‘Demonic’ Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman walked around saying ‘praise Hitler’ as a child: ex-friend

Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman used to horrify classmates by walking around saying ‘Praise Hitler,” according to a former friend who denounced him as “demonic.”

Josefina Sanchez said she is still tormented by how “erratic” and “off” Westman was when they were briefly friends in seventh-grade at a school in St. Paul.

“He would put up his hand and say, like, ‘praise Hitler,’” Sanchez told local outlet KTSP, fighting back tears at the thought she could have raised the alarm and prevented Wednesday’s mass shooting.

“Something I knew was off, but I was a kid. How would I know, like, what to do in the seventh grade?” she asked.

Sanchez said that Westman was known to write in code similar to the Cryllic seen in his twisted manifesto and troubled writings he shared on YouTube before the massacre.

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“It’s demonic, I’m sorry, it is,” she said of her one-time friend’s behaviour.

“It was just kind of triggering,” Sanchez said, becoming overwhelmed with emotion. “I wish I could have said something sooner, but I was little, how was I supposed to know?”