Overview

• On ABC's This Week, Rep. Tom Emmer said the suspect never should have had access to firearms and urged early reporting of mental-health concerns to authorities.
• Emmer emphasized the nation's mental-health crisis and argued for prevention resources to identify risks before violence occurs.
• Pressed on past policy, Emmer acknowledged voting against the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and said he did not remember his reasons.
• Investigators identified the suspect as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who killed two children and wounded others at Annunciation Catholic Church/School while armed with a rifle, shotgun and a pistol.
• Police recovered notebooks described by Chief Brian O'Hara as filled with violent thoughts and broad hate, and investigators say Westman had no criminal history as they examine how he obtained the guns.