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The absent mother of church shooter Robin Westman made a hurried journey from her Florida apartment back to Minneapolis hours before it was searched by the FBI, Daily Mail can exclusively disclose.
Mary Grace Westman, 67, departed the Naples condo on Wednesday as she rushed to fly back to Minnesota on the same day FBI agents were seen arriving there, intending to speak 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.
That neighbor contacted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office to request a welfare check at the three-bedroom condo on the first floor of a small complex, 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 working at Minneapolis’s Annunciation Catholic Church where her transgender child killed two young children and injured 17 others, has now lawyered up.
She has retained criminal defense attorney Ryan Garry, known for his work with NFL star Colin Kaepernick in cases related to protests at the death of George Floyd in 2020.
Mary Westman, seen with her sisters Nancy, Margaret and Diane, fled her Florida apartment for the airport on the day of the horror, Daily Mail can exclusively reveal
Mary worked at the school where her transgender child Robin shot two children dead and injured 18 others on WednesdayÂ
Robin Westman was identified as the deranged killer who opened fire on WednesdayÂ
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.Â
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.Â
‘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 schoolÂ
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. Â
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.
