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Minnesota Lawmaker Shootings
Suspect Allegedly Went To Homes of 4 State Politicians
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CNN
Vance Boelter — the suspected killer of Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman and her husband — allegedly went to the properties of 4 completely different politicians with the intent to kill them … in line with the state’s high prosecutor.
Joseph Thompson, the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, says Boelter made a bunch of stops early Saturday morning … first going to the house of Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman in Chaplin, the place he shot the politician and his spouse earlier than fleeing the scene. Boelter was posing as a police officer, carrying a uniform and driving a car resembling a police SUV, authorities have mentioned.
Thompson says Boelter then went to Maple Grove and rang the doorbell on the house of an unnamed State Representative’s home … however the lawmaker was NOT house as she was on trip along with her household.
From there, Thompson says Boelter then traveled to New Hope and parked his black SUV on the road exterior the house of a Minnesota State Senator. Hoffman’s daughter had known as 911 after her dad and mom have been shot and Thompson says police in New Hope went to the senator’s house for a wellness verify, and noticed Boelter parked exterior, however once more left that residence.
Thompson says Boelter then went to Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman‘s house in Brooklyn Park, the place he encountered police dispatched for a wellness verify. Thompson says Boelter fired on the officers, bumped into the house and murdered Hortman and her husband, Mark, earlier than escaping.
The Hoffmans survived … each are presently hospitalized.
As we reported … Boelter was captured Sunday night time after a two-day manhunt and he is been booked for homicide and tried homicide. Boelter’s been charged with 6 federal counts — 2 counts of stalking, 2 counts of homicide with a firearm, and a couple of counts of a firearms offense … that is along with the state fees.