Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman uncle Kentucky GOP rep Bob Heleringer wished he was shot instead of Annunciation Church schoolchildren

The pro-transgender politician uncle of Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman wished his nephew had shot him instead of killing two “innocent” students.

Former Kentucky state representative Bob Heleringer claimed he “barely knew” Robin Westman, 23, after the lone gunman launched his attack at the Annunciation Church and Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, where he also injured 17 others.

“He was my nephew, and I wish he had shot me instead of innocent schoolchildren,” Heleringer told the Associated Press. “I barely knew him. They (Robin’s family) never lived in Louisville. They lived in Minnesota.”

The 74-year-old Republican represented Kentucky’s 33rd district from 1979 to 2002 and is an opponent of against state legislature banning gender-affirming care for minors.

Heleringer called out the state GOP in a 2023 op-ed in the Courier-Journal titled “I am a Kentucky Republican calling out my party’s war against LGBTQ people.”

The retired pol’s statements were revealed after his nephew, who identified as a transgender woman, opened fire at a back-to-school Mass at Annunciation Catholic School and Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday, killing two children and wounding 17 others.

The 23-year-old gunman, who identified as a transgender woman, opened fire at a back-to-school Mass at the school.

Westman, who attended the school where his mother worked as a parish secretary until 2021, wrote an eerie ode to death when he was a student at St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights — an all-boys Catholic school.

The discerning composition, titled “But Not The End” reflected on Westman’s worries that he would meet the end filled with “regrets that my name not be known for something more,” according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The private prep school, where students are called cadets and where uniforms and train in military leadership, is located 10 miles southeast of Annunciation Catholic School and Church.

Westman was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing two children killed, whose ages were 8 and 10 years old.

A motive behind the killings remains unclear.

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All fourteen other students and three octogenarian parishioners wounded in the shooting are expected to survive, officials said.

In a 2017 Annunciation yearbook, Westman quoted French band Daft Punk, “Work it. Make it. Do it. Makes us. Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger,” as advice for your students, the outlet reported.

Westman, born Robert before legally changing his name to Robin in 2020, had jumped around area schools during his high school years, eventually graduating from Minneapolis’ Southwest High School in 2021.

At the time of the shooting, he had published twisted YouTube videos that included a handwritten manifesto and footage of gun magazines scrawled with the messages “kill Donald Trump” and “for the children.”

The anti-Israeli gunman wrote slogans of “Free Palestine” and murdering “filthy Zionist Jews” he wrote in the Cyrillic alphabet, which The Post translated.

Westman also wrote “6 million wasn’t enough” — a reference to the number of Jewish Holocaust victims.

The deranged gunman fired shots from outside the church into through the stained glass windows.