India, Aug. 28 -- As more information into the shooter at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday emerge, the identity - and in particular, the gender identity - of the suspect, Robin Westman, has come under the scanner.

According to an entry by reporter Jeff Day on the live blog of Minnesota-based newspaper, The Minnesota Star Tribune, court records reveal that Westman "identifies as a female."

Day reported citing court records in Minnesota that Westman's mother applied for her child's name change in 2019 in Dakota County, from Robert Paul Westman to Robin M. Westman , after she identified as female, the report states.

It adds that when the application was filed, Westman was a minor and her mother had to sign off on the ch...