What do we know about the attack on two Minnesota legislators

On Saturday, two state legislators from Minnesota were killed in their homes that the governor Tim Waltz called an “politically motivated murder.” The attacks left one politician dead and the other was seriously injured.

The suspect, Vans Luther Bolter, was taken into custody after he was found in the forest near the village of Green -Ail in Sibba, police said on Sunday night.

Police called Boelter’s two -day search for “the largest state content” and several law enforcement agencies work together to find it.

The attacks caused condemnation from the entire political spectrum. President Donald Trump said in a statement that “such horrific violence will not be admitted.”

US Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat Minnesota, called it “an attack on everything we act as democracy.”

The governor said Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot dead.

She served in the House of Representatives for 20 years and was a speaker of the House since 2019-25.

State Senator John Hoffman and his wife and his wife were shot several times and suffered, but survived. They had an operation.

Both legislators are Democrats.

Law enforcement agencies have confirmed that the attacks took place in the first hours of the Brooklin Park and Champlin, Minnesota.

Drew Evans, the head of the Minnesota Crime Bureau, said the police called at 2:00 local time about the incident at Hoffman’s House in Champlin.

Another call to the police came at 3:35, when the officers checked the Hortman House near Brooklyn Park.

Police have found that it was like an emergency vehicle parked at home and the emergency lights blink.

After leaving the house, there was someone who resembled a police officer, who immediately opened fire on the officers, retreated back to the house, and then fled on foot.

Mark Bruli, Chief of Police Brooklinsky Park, said the suspect “wore a vest with Taser, other equipment, sign”, which acts as law enforcement agencies to “manipulate their way into the house”.

Police have identified 57-year-old Vnes Luther Boelter’s suspect. They did not give details about the possible motive.

The former political is appointed, Bolter once was a member of the same labor development council as Hoffman.

“We do not know the nature of the relationship, or when they actually knew each other,” Evans said.

Investigators have reportedly found a list of 70 “goals”, including the names of state democratic politicians, in a vehicle that the suspect drove to the murder.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Congress Ilhan Omar, two US Senators, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, as well as Minnesota Keith Prosecutor General, were on the hits, local media reported.

The place for the planned paternity providing abortion and contraception was also on the list, a person familiar with the investigation, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.

Evans told reporters that he would not describe the notebook found in the car as a “manifesto”, because it was not a “treatise on all ideology and works.”

Boelter is a security contractor and a religious missionary who worked in Africa and the Middle East, the Internet reports.

One day, Bolter preached as a pastor in the Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Facebook reports. He often traveled to the nation, showing messages from his account LinkedIn.

On the Internet, two years ago, it seemed to show that he resorted to the congregation, adding that he has a wife and five children.

He also worked in Minnesota for a major power distributor, store network and two -enterprises on ritual services, reports it online.

According to local KTTC television, the only Boelter criminal history in Minnesota was for road tickets, including speeding and parking.

He sent a message about an alarming message to friends at the Minneapolis residence, where he rented the room and would remain one or two nights a week, Report Minnesota Star Tribune.

Boelter said, “I will leave for a while. Maybe he died soon, so I just want to inform you that I love you guys and I would like him not to go that way.”

On Sunday night, police said she found Boellter after receiving the information he had been seen in the Green -Oil village near the house.

He was arrested in rural areas with mostly agricultural land, fields and a small forest and taken into custody “without the use of force” or police injury.

Police said Boel was armed when arrested but did not provide additional information about the type of weapon present.

Evans said the arrest of Boeellter brought a “sense of relief” to the communities and legislators who were on the suspect’s purposes.

He also said that law enforcement agencies believed that the suspect acted alone and did not enter a wider network.

Authorities also condemned the projection of the policeman during the attacks, saying that “he exploits the trust we must represent.”

Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz also watched the courtesy, urging people to “shake their hand” and “find common language”.

“The small actions of one person changed the Ministry of Minnesota,” he said.

“It cannot be the norm. It cannot be what we are dealing with our political differences.”

Prior to the arrest of Boel, his wife was detained at a stop stop with three relatives in the car in Ana, more than 100 miles from the family’s house, on Saturday morning, but released after questioning.