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Suspect in the 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators
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...
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...
Reporting shows Vance Boelter had a varied, sometimes inconsistent résumé spanning decades in food-service and retail management, claimed roles in security and international ventures, and later short-...
Public records and reporting show Vance Boelter has a mixed paper trail: he registered as a Republican in Oklahoma in the early 2000s and friends say he voted for and supported Donald Trump, but Minne...
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...
Vance Luther Boelter is a 57-year-old Minnesota resident with a long history in private security, international business, and workforce development who was arrested and charged in connection with a se...
The original state charging document filed against Vance Boelter accused him of two counts of second‑degree murder (intent but not premeditated) and multiple counts of attempted murder, each count car...
Prosecutors built their case against Vance Boelter on a combination of physical evidence seized from his car and property, unsealed search-warrant materials describing eyewitness accounts and scene ev...
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...
Investigators reconstructed Vance Boelter’s pre-attack movements through a mix of court filings, surveillance footage, witness accounts and physical evidence recovered from a vehicle and the scene, in...
Available reporting shows no public, explicit announcement by Vance Luther Boelter that he "switched parties" in recent years; state records and news outlets describe a mixed or non‑declared registrat...
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...
Public records and multiple news reports show Vance Boelter voted in the March 2024 Minnesota Republican presidential primary and was previously registered as a Republican in Oklahoma in 2004, but the...
Available reporting and court documents show federal prosecutors charged Vance Boelter with stalking before and in connection with the June 14 shootings, and prosecutors’ filings and search warrants d...
Friends, a longtime colleague and court documents described signs that Vance Boelter was struggling — financially, socially and psychologically — in the years before the June 2025 attacks; a friend sa...
Available reporting documents multiple contemporaneous observations that Vance Boelter showed signs of worsening mood, “mental health strain,” and financial stress in the months before the June 14, 20...
Tucker Carlson’s claim about “Minnesota assassinations” is being advanced via his show and guests—most notably an interview with journalist Liz Collin that frames recent shootings in Minnesota as poli...
The primary public evidence that Vance Boelter claimed Gov. Tim Walz told him to kill Democratic lawmakers is a handwritten letter Boelter left for then‑FBI Director Kash Patel that prosecutors releas...
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 ...