Minnesota Lawmaker Shootings Suspect
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It’s a scene that has played out hundreds of times in movies and real life: Someone pretending to be a police officer gains the trust of a stranger and then commits terrible crimes. That was apparently the method used by the assailant who knocked on the doors of two state legislators early Saturday,
Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly killing a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker and her husband while posing as a police officer, Governor Tim Walz said.
Surveillance footage captured an attempted murder, according to charges unsealed Sunday: A man wearing a mask, a blue shirt and police-style tactical vest with a badge knocked on a door in Champlin and announced himself as a police officer. He then entered the house and shot Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
Organizers of the protests said that all of the planned events in the state were canceled after a recommendation from Gov. Tim Walz.
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Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman was shot in her Brooklyn Park home, while fellow party member Sen. John Hoffman was targeted roughly 8 miles away in Champlin, sources told 5 Eyewitness News. A manhunt is on for the suspect, who was wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants.