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American lawyer and politician (1970–2025)
Federal and local prosecutors have charged Vance Boelter in connection with the June 14, 2025 shootings that killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded St...
In late 2024 the most-noted international incidents tied to the extreme right included the mid‑June racist stabbings in Oulu, Finland, and multiple country‑level spikes documented by specialist tracke...
Complete, authoritative counts of every U.S. political figure ever assassinated are not presented in the supplied sources; available reporting instead catalogs notable cases (including four presidents...
Available reporting shows wide circulation of many of Charlie Kirk’s controversial public remarks after his September 2025 killing, but the provided sources do not quote a single, definitive “exact co...
The investigation into Melissa Hortman’s death has advanced to a federal criminal indictment: , including murder, stalking and firearms-related charges, marking a major prosecutorial step while invest...
CNN consistently framed the attack on former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman as a politically motivated assassination, emphasizing a perpetrator who impersonated law enforcement, targeted mult...
A federal grand jury indicted Vance Boelter in July 2025 on charges alleging he murdered former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and shot Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman and f...
Melissa Hortman became emotional during floor debate because she cast the lone Democratic vote to end MinnesotaCare coverage for undocumented adults — a concession she says she made to secure a bipart...
The shootings targeted two Minnesota legislative families: former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman were killed, and State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman wer...
Vance Luther Boelter, 57, is the man federal and state authorities say carried out targeted shootings of Minnesota lawmakers that killed former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounde...
Charlie Kirk’s remarks about Melissa Hortman arose in a fraught national conversation after two high‑profile killings; reporting and commentary portray , with the right amplifying Kirk’s significance ...
President Trump did not publicly offer explicit condolences to Melissa Hortman’s family in the immediate aftermath of her assassination; reporters recorded him saying he was “not familiar” with her an...
President Trump’s public statements about the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman followed a shifting pattern: he initially said he was “not familiar” with her death, later assert...
The federal indictment and related charging documents link Vance Boelter to what journalists and prosecutors have described as a list or notebook of lawmakers primarily through physical evidence recov...
The major U.S. news networks framed the attack on Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman as a and provided sustained, multi‑platform coverage focused on the suspect’s alleged hit list, the victims’ identit...
Since 2016 reporting and datasets document a noticeable rise in attacks, assassination attempts and plots against U.S. politicians, candidates, judges and government employees; CSIS counts 25 attacks ...
Several right-wing figures and influencers faced public backlash for their reactions to the June assassination of Minnesota House leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, most prominently Collin Rugg (...
Conspiracy theories that political assassinations are "staged" or false‑flag operations arise repeatedly after high‑profile attacks; contemporary coverage shows an uptick in political violence in the ...
Melissa Hortman served as a long‑time Minnesota state legislator and , with two decades of service and six years in the Speaker role, remembered for collaborative leadership and attention to equity an...
The local community responded to Representative Melissa Hortman’s murder with immediate shock, grief, and widespread condemnation, framing the killings as targeted political violence and rallying for ...