Minnesota Shooting Suspect Vance Boelter Arrested
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He wounded Sen. John Hoffman and his wife but didn’t come into contact with the two other DFL legislators, investigators say.
He is accused of impersonating a police officer and fatally shooting former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in their home outside of Minneapolis. Boelter is also suspected of shooting Minnesota Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their home nearby.
A private Bible college in Dallas is speaking out after learning that Vance Luther Boelter — the 44-year-old man accused in a series of politically-motivated shootings in Minnesota — briefly attended their program over two decades ago.
The judge presiding over the upcoming burglary trial of state Sen. Nicole Mitchell is postponing the trial given the slaying of Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was fatally shot along with her husband in their home Saturday morning.
Boelter claimed to have a doctorate of education, and said he spent extensive time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa — where he was seen in videos apparently preaching on stage.
A car allegedly belonging to Vance Boelter, the man suspected of shooting two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses over the weekend, has reportedly been discovered a day later and more than 50 miles away from where the tragedy took place in Minnesota.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said the deadly shooting of state Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband on Saturday was politically motivated, noting that there was some