Investigators reveal new details of Rep. Hortman’s murder and future of 57-year-old Vance Boelter. Federal prosecutors have filed a new round of charges against Boelter after he was apprehended late Sunday evening in connection with a politically motivated shooting rampage that left two dead and two others critically wounded.
The new federal charges include interstate stalking and federal murder—charges that could lead to the death penalty, according to U.S. officials.
Feds are filing stalking and federal
murder charges against Boelter
Potential death penalty case
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 16, 2025
Boelter, a former appointee of Democrat Governor Tim Walz, is accused of killing Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, early Saturday morning in their Brooklyn Park home.
Just hours later, he allegedly traveled to the home of State Senator John Hoffman in nearby Champlin, where he shot both Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Miraculously, the Hoffmans survived.
“John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods,” Yvette Hoffman said in a statement on Sunday. “He took nine bullet hits. I took eight. We are both incredibly lucky to be alive. We are gutted and