Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman dumped her girlfriend just weeks before murdering children at a Catholic school, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The 23-year-old transgender shooter had been dating Abigail Bodick, 22, for several years, before suddenly breaking it off and falsely blaming her as the ‘root of my suffering’ in a twisted manifesto made up of journal entries.
Deranged Westman branded Bodick, who goes by either Abbey or Jakub, a ‘blue hair and pronouns b***h’ before slaughtering eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski, 10, inside the Annunciation Catholic Church on August 27.
A sensational new trove of photos and video obtained by the Daily Mail show Westman and Bodick together.
In one image they are seen at a craft fair in December selling various products. Westman created handmade mini skateboards, while Bodick made jewelry.
A disturbing video also shows Westman grinning while handling a ‘fake’ shotgun on a camping trip the couple took together. Another clip, set to ominous music, shows the killer with bright pink hair grinning and biting her lip.
The video then cuts to Bodick, as a voice on the backing audio can be heard saying: ‘I’m way too horny to talk to this woman right now.’
In Westman’s manifesto – penned in Cyrillic letters – the shooter also boasted about being attracted to ‘furries’ (people who get sexual enjoyment out of dressing up as animals).
An Instagram account linked to Bodick has a profile image of a ‘furry’. The 22-year-old also attended an ‘Anime Detour’ convention in March dressed in blue furry cat ears and painted whiskers.
In a translation of Westman’s manifesto seen by the Daily Mail, Westman described Bodick as a ‘catalyst’ and the ‘root of my suffering’ before committing the brutal attacks.
One entry suggest that the pair broke up in early August, with Westman telling a friend she needed space from Bodick on July 27.
The lengthy journal entries are littered with complaints about Bodick and their cat, Parmesan – with Westman even admitting to pointing a gun at Bodick in the weeks prior to the shooting.
‘I just pointed my pistol at the back of Abbey’s head to see if I would feel anything,’ Westman wrote.
‘No, the only thing I felt was fear of them turning around and catching me. I felt no remorse or fear of killing them, I was only concerned about how murdering Abbey would really f*** up my plans.
‘It felt good, actually, to point it right at their stupid head. Abbey is so f***ing stupid, I have been handling and walking with it holstered, exposed, all day, and they still think it’s airsoft.
‘Dumbass b****! It’s a real gun! I bought it to kill kids!’
Photos obtained by the Daily Mail show the couple together as early as 2022, while posts also show Bodick gushing about Westman online.
The couple appeared to dress up and attend a local Renaissance fair together, with Bodick captioning a set of pictures: ‘I love my girlfriend!’
Other videos show the pair spending time together at an aquarium, and Westman showing off her skateboarding skills.
Despite the pair appearing happy on social media, Westman wrote that Bodick was the ’cause’ of her downward spiral, saying: ‘I am NOT spending my life with a “blue hair and pronouns” having a** b***h. You are lucky I have bigger plans than you.’
The shooter also branded Bodick’s family ‘rude trailer park white trash’, and whined: ‘I wish I never met Abbey’.
Westman added: ‘Your family reminds me of why some innocent people have to die. You f***ers are not criminals or bad people, it’s just that sometimes people like you need to die so you don’t breed.’
On July 11 – six weeks before opening fire on the school – Westman even fantasized about revealing her murderous intent to her lover.
‘I want to see the look of horror and tears on their face as they realize what a monster I am,’ Westman wrote.
‘If I feel like I could do it, I would then stab them in the heart many times and go commit my final act.
‘I want to kill so many people. I will do it. All I want to think about is guns and killing. Abbey keeps me from that with their annoying voice and stupid s**t they say.’
The manifesto also blames Bodick for ‘ruining their life’, adding: ‘I think I will leave Abbey alive so they can read this and feel all the s**t they put me through. F*** you, Abbey.
‘I hope everyone blames you for making me do this. It’s your fault’.
Westman even fantasized about how Bodick would feel after the murders, gloating: ‘Let’s see how much you love me after I complete my mission!
‘Now imagine you find out your partner did not just snap one day, but instead had been planning it all out, right under your nose. For months!’
Westman wrote that Bodick had a birthday coming up and that she didn’t want to get her a gift, but ultimately got Bodick something with her ‘daddy’s money’, because she was ‘sick of spending my money on you, you moocher.’
Then on July 8, Bodick’s 22nd birthday, Westman wrote: ‘I will kill. Abbey has pushed me to the edge.
‘I was thinking it would be hilarious if I did my attack on Abbey’s birthday! If I don’t kill them, that would forever ruin their birthday! But their B-day is also my mom’s birthday so… I don’t want to do that.’
In what appeared to be a final twist of the knife, Westman left Bodick’s name off her suicide note addressed to her family – but included two close friends.
Bodick graduated from the Perpich Center for Arts Education in 2021, after studying Visual Arts. The school posted a tribute to Westman’s victims after the shooting.
Bodick and members of her family did not respond to the Daily Mail’s attempts to contact them.
It comes after Westman’s father, James, told investigators that she had been going through a break-up.
So far, Westman’s father has been cooperating with the FBI investigation, while her mother Mary Grace Westman, 67, has retained a high-profile defense attorney.
The Daily Mail has previously reported that Mary Grace, who retired in 2021 from working at the church where her child killed two and injured 17 others, put up a daughter for adoption as a child, before reuniting with her years later.
Years after giving up her baby, Mary Grace went on to became a devout Catholic and anti-abortion activist who once held a crucifix in protest outside a Planned Parenthood clinic.
In the last weeks of her life, Westman had been staying with a friend, moving out of the one-bedroom apartment she shared with Bodick at the Lynwood Commons Apartments complex, about a 10-minute drive from the Annunciation Church.
Westman fired 116 rifle rounds through the stained-glass windows of the church while school children were attending mass on the morning of August 27.
Westman was armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, and used all three weapons in the attack.
Westman – dressed in black ‘tactical’ gear – was found dead behind the church from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Investigators recovered hundreds of pieces of evidence from the church and searched three homes associated with the 23-year-old shooter.
Inside Westman’s father’s home, police seized a Condor tactical vest with ‘various attachments not related to law enforcement/security,’ the search warrant states.
Officers also recovered two external media storage devices and a collection of documents.
In YouTube videos posted online, timed to go live with the massacre, Westman shared a string of hate-filled writings and detailed plans for the attack.
Westman had a ‘deranged fascination’ with mass killings and school shooters, and suggested in the manifesto that there was not one singular motive for the attack.
Westman – who attended the school targeted in the attack – was previously known as Robert before undergoing a legal name change name in 2020.
According to court papers filed in Dakota County, Minnesota, Westman wanted to be known as Robin to reflect that Westman identified ‘as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification’.
But in the handwritten manifesto Westman appeared to question the decision to transition.
Westman complained about being ‘tired of being trans’ and ‘brainwashed’.
‘I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself,’ the killer wrote in a scrawled cryptic message.
Under Minnesota law, changing legal name is far more straightforward than if an individual wishes to change their official birth certificate.
Westman only had to petition for the name change, but to alter a birth certificate, the killer would need a doctor’s letter showing ‘medical certification of appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition’.
It is not known if the killer ever tried to do this, and it is unclear if doctors ever prescribed medication for Westman’s gender transition.
Police said Westman legally purchased the weapons used in the massacre, had no arrest history and acted alone.