Man suspected of shooting Minnesota lawmakers arrested after huge manhunt
A 57 -year -old man, a democratic state deputy and was arrested in the US state of Minnesota on suspicion of killing her husband.
On Sunday night, the arrest was the peak of a two -day hunting after the deaths of Minnesota Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. The state governor Tim Walz said, “a politically motivated assassination.”
Police said that Vance Luther Boelter was armed when he was arrested in a rural area in the west of Minneapolis, but he left himself in peace when he challenged.
The suspect is also allegedly shot and wounded by John Hoffman, Democratic State Senator, and now both his wife Yette, who was awake in the hospital.
Mrs. Hoffman said on Sunday, both of them felt “incredibly lucky for being alive”.
Boelter found a car allegedly used in the inspectors Sibley district, and found about 50 miles (80 km) from the murder area in Brooklyn Park in Minnesota.
Air and Swat teams were deployed to arrest the suspect, which was defined as the biggest human hunt in Minnesota’s history.
No police officer was injured during the infection, and the authorities said they did not call any other suspect.
Speaking at a press conference with other local authorities on Sunday night, the Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz said the attack was “” “spoken action” that changed the state of Minnesota.
Walz, “This can not be the norm. We cannot deal with our political differences.” He said.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey praised the “skill and courage of law enforcement officers after the arrest of Boelter.
“Political violence is disgusting, it is cut against the most basic moral texture of our democracy. It is very important that those who perform these actions are held responsible for the law.”
Boelter is accused of imitating a police officer to carry out attacks on Saturday before shopping with police officers and escaping from the suburban Minneapolis region.
Melissa Hortman worked in the House of Representatives of Minnesota for 20 years and became the speaker of the room from 2019 to 2025.
Boelter, a former political appointment, was once a member of the Hoffman and the same State Labor Development Board.
According to the online resume, a security contractor and religious missionary working in Africa and the Middle East.
According to Facebook photographs, Boelter preached as priests in a church in the Democratic Republic of Democratic Congo.
Inspectors, the vehicle thought to be directed to the alleged shots of the “targets” reportedly found.
Minnesota Penal Agreement Bureau Director Drew Evans, in a statement to journalists, the laptop in the car “all kinds of ideology and inspection to all kinds of inspections” as “manifesto” will not define as he said.
Local media, the Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, Congress Member Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Chief Prosecutor Keith Ellison’u reported.
At a press conference after Boelter’s arrest, Evans did not specify who was on the list, but the state officials contacted the authorities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska and Iowa, so that they could inform the individuals in this list.
