The mother of the Minneapolis school church shooter struggled with her child's gender transition and continuous behavior issues, school employees said.
Mary Grace Westman, 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.
'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.
'She didn't know how she felt, but it weighed heavily on her,' they added.
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.
