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The dozens of politicians included in Boelter’s writings were Democrats, according to acting US Attorney Joseph Thompson.
Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed at their home early Saturday morning by a man disguised as police, officials said.
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Boelter allegedly had firearms and a list of 45 elected officials in notebooks in his car, law enforcement said.
He wounded Sen. John Hoffman and his wife but didn’t come into contact with the two other DFL legislators, investigators say.
Gilbert, the golden retriever trained by murdered Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, had to be put down after the shooting that killed her and husband Mark at their home.
SUSPECT CAPTURED: Vance Boelter, the suspect in the fatal shootings of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, as well as the woundings of another lawmaker and his wife, has been captured.
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY – A man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers worked at Johnsonville and owned a home in Sheboygan County. A Johnsonville spokesperson confirmed to the Sheboygan Press that Vance Luther Boelter, 57, worked at the company between 2004 and 2008.
Melissa Hortman’s power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply divided Minnesota Legislature was a far cry from her job as a teenager making chili-cheese burritos and overshadowed her volunteer work training service dogs for veterans.