Live Updates: Minnesota Man Is Charged With Murder of Lawmaker
"Vance Boelter was captured late Sunday after a two-day manhunt that put the state on edge. He may face first-degree murder charges in the attacks, which killed a state lawmaker and wounded another.
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Suspect Arrested for Murder of Minnesota Lawmaker
The arrest of Vance Boelter ended a two-day manhunt after the assassination of State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attempted assassination of others.
After a two-day manhunt, two sleepless nights, law enforcement have apprehended Vance Boelter. One man’s unthinkable actions have altered the State of Minnesota. Melissa Hortman was the core of who our values were. And you can rest assured that we will put every ounce of effort that the State of Minnesota has to make sure that justice is served, and the individual responsible for this serves the time for the unspeakable act. This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences.
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The largest manhunt in Minnesota’s history came to an end late Sunday when a man accused of assassinating a state lawmaker and shooting another was finally captured, after SWAT teams used drones to track him crawling through a wooded area outside Minneapolis.
The suspect, Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested and charged, concluding an extensive two-day search that rattled Minnesotans. Mr. Boelter surrendered near Green Isle, Minn., a town where he had a home with his wife and children. The police said they searched the area after a resident spotted the suspect on a trail camera.
Vance Boelter, who is accused of shooting two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses, is being held at the Hennepin County Jail in downtown Minneapolis, according to an online jail roster.
More than 100 police officers searched for two days for the suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses. They finally captured him late Sunday, the hunt ending when he crawled to officers who had tracked him to a field outside Minneapolis.
The suspect, Vance Boelter, 57, had been on the run for a day and a half when investigators found his car and hat Sunday afternoon on a remote stretch of road in Sibley County, a largely rural area southwest of Minneapolis — about an hour’s drive from the sites of the attacks early Saturday.
Responding to a question about why the suspect, Vance Boelter, was charged with second-degree murder, Attorney General Keith Ellison of Minnesota said in a social media post on Monday that state law requires a grand jury indictment before a suspect can be charged with first-degree murder. “It will happen,” Mr. Ellison said.
Walz called for an end to political violence. “This cannot be the norm,” he said. “Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country.”
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota credited the Hoffmans’ daughter for “heroic actions” that he said “saved countless lives.” Charging documents indicate that a child of the Hoffmans called 911.
The suspect in the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and the shooting of a second possessed a notebook that mentioned about 70 potential targets, some in neighboring states, that included politicians, civic and business leaders, and Planned Parenthood centers, according to law enforcement officials.
The suspect, Vance Boelter, 57, was in police custody on Sunday after a two-day manhunt. Officials believe he is the gunman who impersonated a police officer and fatally shot Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded State Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, early Saturday morning."
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