The alleged suspect involved in the Minnesota lawmaker shootings identified as Vance Luther Boelter — a former appointee of Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — who is now wanted in connection with a series of coordinated shootings that left one state lawmaker and her husband dead, and another critically wounded.
According to law enforcement sources, Boelter—posing as a police officer—ambushed Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette at their Champlin home early Saturday morning. The couple was shot multiple times and rushed into emergency surgery. They remain in stable condition.
Boelter then drove to the home of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, where he is believed to have executed Hortman and her husband, Mark, after gaining entry dressed as law enforcement.
Officers responding to the scene exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who managed to escape despite briefly being cornered.
Inside Boelter’s vehicle, police discovered a manifesto naming other political targets, alongside a pile of flyers reading “No Kings”—a slogan linked to recent anti-Trump protests sweeping the country.
The suspect isn’t just a random attacker—Boelter, 57, was appointed twice by Democrat governors, first to the Minnesota Workforce Development Council in 2016 under Gov. Mark Dayton, and later in