Robin Levinson King BBC News Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/Reuters Police said suspect Vance Luther Boelter was armed at the time of his arrest The suspect accused of fatally shooting a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in a gun rampage last week was a doomsday “prepper”, according to the FBI. The wife of the accused, Vance...
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Watch: ‘To lose her is tragic’ – Minnesotans pay respects to Melissa Hortman A man who is accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband, and injuring another state lawmaker and his wife, allegedly attempted to kill two other state lawmakers, Minnesota officials said on Monday. Vance Luther Boelter, 57, who is charged...
A 57-year-old man has been arrested in the US state of Minnesota on suspicion of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband. The arrest on Sunday night was the culmination of a huge two-day manhunt following the deaths of Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota Democrat, and her husband Mark. State Governor Tim Walz called it...
Getty/Minnesota state Senate On Saturday, two state lawmakers from Minnesota were gunned down in their homes in what Governor Tim Walz called a “politically motivated assassination” attempt. The attacks left one politician dead and the other seriously injured. The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, has been taken into custody after he was found hiding in the...
Vance Boelter, the madman who assassinated Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, and who shot Senator John Hoffman and his wife, has been apprehended in rural Sibley County, Minnesota. An intense statewide manhunt that spanned hundreds of square miles in the state is over. For much of the day, the manhunt was concentrated in...
Mike Wendling BBC News Reporting fromMinneapolis Yvette Hoffman / Facebook Yvette and John Hoffman A survivor of Saturday’s deadly attacks on two Minnesota lawmakers says she and her husband are both “incredibly lucky to be alive” after they were hit by 17 bullets. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were gunned down at...
The manhunt for a suspect in deadly attacks on Minnesota lawmakers continued into its second day on Sunday, as police extended the search over state lines to nearby South Dakota. Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their home early Saturday morning . Another lawmaker, state Senator John...
The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife in a separate incident, officials said. DEVELOPING STORY… A gunman pretending to be a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and killed the lawmaker’s husband in “an act of targeted political violence,” Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday. The assailant also...
The REPORTED suspect is Vance Luther Bolter. KSTP is reporting that this is the suspect. BREAKING: I’m told by a police source in Minnesota the suspect in the shootings of MN state lawmakers is Vance Luther Boelter. It appears it is the same Boelter who was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019...
The homes of two Minnesota state lawmakers have been targeted in shootings early on Saturday morning, CBS News, the BBC’s US news partner, reported. They were the homes of State Senator John Hoffman and Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, both from the Democratic-Farmer-Labour (DFL) Party, in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, neighbouring cities near Minneapolis....
Minnesota Democrats are trying to lay the blame on Republicans, and with some reason, but when push came to shove, they caved and are cutting illegal immigrants off from state-subsidized healthcare. The reason? Shockingly enough, there isn’t enough money to spread around to all their favored constituencies after having blown an enormous budget surplus in...
David Beckham’s star-studded Inter Miami were thrashed 4-1 by Minnesota United but it was the opposition’s social media activity that he took exception to – and the former England captain went straight to the comments section. Saturday’s loss was the heaviest Inter had suffered since eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi joined the club in...
LeBron James says he is unsure if he will continue his NBA career next season after the Los Angeles Lakers were knocked out of the first round of the play-offs by the Minnesota Timberwolves. The 40-year-old, in his 22nd season as a professional, was unable to prevent the Timberwolves completing a 4-1 series victory with...
Well, when the governor gives the green light to go out and commit crimes for political purposes, it’s not surprising that one of the 37,000 people working for him will happily do so. As you may recall, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was giddy about the drop in Tesla stock price driven by the Democrat-funded domestic...