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Minnesota lawmakers shooting: Search begins for perpetrator

2025-06-15 10:15:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Minnesota lawmakers shooting: Search begins for perpetrator

Minnesota police and the FBI continued a massive manhunt Saturday night for a gunman posing as a police officer who killed a top Democratic state assemblywoman and her husband in what Governor Tim Walz called a "politically motivated murder."

The suspect, identified as 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, allegedly also shot and wounded a second lawmaker and his wife, according to law enforcement officials and the FBI.

He fled on foot after shooting police at the home of slain former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.

Law enforcement officials said the suspect abandoned a vehicle that appeared to be a police SUV, in which officers found a "manifesto" and a target list of politicians and other institutions.

Boelter should be considered armed and dangerous and is believed to still be in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said at a news conference, adding that it was too early to determine a motive.

The suspect had ties to evangelical ministries and claimed to be a security expert with experience in the Gaza Strip and Africa, according to online postings and public records reviewed by Reuters.

Boelter also described himself online as a former employee of food service companies and was appointed in 2016 by Walz's predecessor to the Governor's Workforce Development Advisory Board, according to state records.





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