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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...
was appointed and reappointed by to serve as a business member on in December 2019, a voluntary, advisory body; that appointment is documented in state records and widely reported . Multiple local and...
Prosecutors have framed ’s case as one that carries the gravest punishments available— and state penalties of life without parole for first‑degree premeditated murder—while the defense has emphasized ...
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...
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...
’s recent and verifiable employers immediately prior to the were in and a position as a recovery technician at the eye bank, while his broader work history includes past employment in food manufacturi...
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...
The ’s unsealed affidavits and the notebooks and letters attributed to depict a of surveillance, target selection and logistical preparation that unfolded over weeks to months, culminating in the and ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Prosecutors tied to a list of targeted officials primarily through physical items recovered from his vehicle and person—most notably notebooks and lists with names and addresses—and by pointing to his...