Vance Boelter, a 57-year-old Trump supporter, has been arrested following an extensive two-day search following multiple shootings of Minnesota lawmakers.
Boelter was charged with two counts of second-degree murder for the killing of State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark; and two counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting and wounding State Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.
Authorities found a vehicle Boelter was using abandoned in Sibley County on Sunday, and a police officer reported seeing Boelter run into the forest. Police set up a large perimeter and utilized 20 different tactical teams searching for him.
Police said they received a tip during the search confirming someone was in the woods and searched for hours, using a helicopter and officers on foot, until they found Boelter. He surrendered to police, crawling out to officers in the woods before he was taken into custody and handcuffed.
From the New York Times:
Mr. Boelter surrendered near Green Isle, Minn., a town where he had a home with his wife and children. The police said they searched the area after a resident spotted the suspect on a trail camera.
The suspect had a notebook that mentioned about 70 potential targets, some in neighboring states, that included politicians, civic and business leaders, and Planned Parenthood centers, according to law enforcement officials.
Disinformation has circulated online since authorities released Boelter’s name, attempting to cast him as a disgruntled leftist and agent of Walz even as Boelter’s roommate and longtime friend told reporters that he voted in the 2024 GOP primary and was a Trump supporter.
So the alleged suspect not only, had a manifesto which listed dozens of Democrats (and only democrats) as his targets, but is a hardcore evangelical, ans supporter of the “Alliance Defending Freedom” which is the ultra-Christian nationalist legal organization, that funds… https://t.co/vmXBSCEAh7 pic.twitter.com/5x1sG5onqk
— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) June 14, 2025
In related news, according to Axios, Donald Trump has yet to call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz regarding the deadly shootings.
Traditionally, presidents call a state’s governors in times of crisis.
Via Axios:
Walz spokesperson Teddy Tschann confirmed to Axios that the governor had not heard from the president directly as of early Sunday afternoon.
Walz spoke to both Vice President Vance and former President Biden on Saturday, Tschann said.
When asked by ABC News Sunday morning whether he planned to reach out to the Democratic governor, the president criticized Walz but left the door open to a conversation.
“Well, it’s a terrible thing. I think he’s a terrible governor. I think he’s a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too,” he told ABC’s Rachel Scott.
I think it’s terribly petty that Trump would pivot from the topic of the shootings to “grossly incompetent person.” And only because Walz was former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate for the 2024 presidential election.
Petty.
No surprise: Following the assassination of Minnesota House Democratic Leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman, and the shooting of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman — vindictive and petty piece of shit Trump has still not called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. pic.twitter.com/LoiW75Duer
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) June 15, 2025
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