Investigators will review videos, manifestos, and the shooter's online activity to determine motive and ideology. Online platforms such as Reddit and other chat forums are potential sources of radicalization and will be examined to identify who the shooter engaged with. Susceptibility to ideology can result from multiple push-pull factors, including possible mental breaks, severe life setbacks, and family dynamics or parenting. Pandemic-related isolation and the gamification influence of video games are cited as possible contributing elements. Authorities will assess whether contacts or communities helped motivate or radicalize the attacker and whether similar mechanisms affected past shooters. The shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, killed two children and injured 17 others, including 14 children, at a Minneapolis Catholic church.
What I think is significant is, you know, the videos and the manifestos and all of that will go to his motive and his ideology. That is all going to be gone through. And, you know, if he is on Reddit or if he's on any of these other chat platforms that have tended to radicalize people in the past, O'Leary said.
Whether it's a terrorist organization or, you know, the variety of ideologies that different people follow, they're following them because they have susceptibility. There's various push pull factors. Maybe it's some kind of mental break. Maybe it's their life has, you know, gone down the toilet and they have no hope. He continued: Maybe they have bad parenting. [It could be] a variety of things the effects of covid and the isolation
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