
Vance Luther Boelter, 57, suspected gunman in the shooting deaths of a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker and her husband, appears in this June 16, 2025. — Reuters
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Venus had flaws in the Bowltar disguise. Its SUV license plate has just read “police” in black letters, and the silicone mask was a bit loose. However, in the middle of the night, it was enough on a suburban suburbs.
At 2:36 pm on Saturday, after 30 minutes, after the authorities say, Boylitter badly shot and injured Manysota’s state Senator John Hafman and his wife, who stopped behind the wheels of SUV near another Senator Ann Rest in New Hope City.
SUV was stored with weapons, including AK -47 Assistant Rifles, as well as a written list of flights and names of the people who promoted the weekend local Trump rally. Senator Rest, prosecutors will later say, including those who went out to kill June 14.
When the Bowltor sat in the SUV under the road from the house, another police car – this original police car – approached.
After hearing about a hampen firing, a female officer of the New Hope Police Department, came out to check the rest. Watching SUV, complete with shining lights and police style decisions, he believed that the man inside was a fellow officer.
But when he tried to talk to him – one officer salutes another – he got no answer. Instead, the person inside the SUV with police marks looked easily. The new Hope Officer went ahead, deciding to proceed and check the comfort.
The rest will later say that the New Hope Officer’s move may have saved his life, whose opinion was shared by New Hope Police Chief Timothy Hurate.
“With limited information, Hoit told Reuters,” She went there to examine our senator’s welfare. ” “He did the right thing.”
A brief interaction in the New Hope identified the Boylter’s Pre -Dean mob carefully planned and how the police officer’s imitation, including a body armor, a badge and a strategy vest, confused his initial efforts to stop it.
After a collision with a New Hope Officer, 57 -year -old Boylitter left his next target. The police would chase it for another 43 hours. In this process, they will be attracted to a filament of state and federal agencies, which is the biggest turmoil in the history of Minnesota, and has increased a sense of misconduct in a nation that is already in captivity against immigration, a press conference in a press conference.
Federal prosecutors say they can seek death sentence for Boeletor, who has been accused of killing two people and trying to kill two others, in which Governor Tim Walls called the “politically encouraged” attack.
Prosecutors said they were still investigating the purpose and whether anyone else was involved. Bowlater has yet to enter the application. Mani Atwal, a public protector representing Boeletor, said he was reviewing the case and refused to comment.
The construction of the riot is based on judicial documents, statements of law enforcement, and interviews of a bobbler friend, local police officers, lawmakers and residents of the affected palaces.
Criminal justice experts said that although incidents opened out of TV crime drama, past shootings were parallel to the firing. Former FBI criminal profiler, James Fitz Jirald, said he would not be surprised if Bowlter studied mass firing in Canada in 2020, when a gunman killed 22 people in Nova Scottia province as a police officer.
“These boys are always researching. They want to see how the other killers succeeded, how they were caught,” said Fitz Jigerld, who helped capture “Inbumber” Ted Kacinsky in 1996. “And, of course, you have to pose yourself as a police officer who is buying for some time.”
‘Victims like victims’
The violence began at the Hoffman’s brick -level -level house in Champions, a leaf of Monipolis, a suburb of the middle class. His emergency lights shining, Bowlitter pulled into the driveway after 2am and knocked on the door.
According to the FBI affidavit, “This is the police. Open the door.”
Senator Huffman and his wife, UV, soon decided that Boeleter was not a real police officer. Bowlater shot Senator Half Man nine times, and then fired on the Uweet, which saved his daughter from targeting.
When the Bowltor escaped from the scene, the daughter called 911.
Hafmens were on the list of more than 45 federal and state -elected officials in Minnesota, all Democrats, Acting US Attorney Joseph H. Thomson told a briefing on Monday.
According to his part -time roommate Matt David Carlson, Boeletor voted for President Donald Trump, he was a Christian and did not like abortion. Carlson said that Boeleter did not seem to be angry with politics.
Thomson said that Bowlitter “sticks his hunting like hunting”, but that the writings he has left behind does not indicate any integrated purpose. “His crimes are a dream,” he said.
After Huffman, the next address was a lawmaker at Bolter’s GPS system, a legislator nine miles away in the suburb of the Plugin Maple Guru’s Manipolis.
The FBI affidavit states that state representatives from Kirsten Bahner’s house surveillance cameras show a doorbell at 2:24 pm, showing a masked boiletor and “opens the door. This is the police. We have a warrant,” the FBI has a warrant.
Bahin and his family were not at home.
From there, the Boylitter New Hoop and the officer headed to a close confrontation that left the rest of the house. After that, he was not seen again by the police unless he arrived at the residence of the top Democrat Melissa Heartman at the State House in Brooklyn Park.
Realizing that Heartman could be a target, Brooklyn Park police officers decided to investigate it. When he arrived at 3:30 am, he saw a black Ford Explorer outside his house, his police -style lights shine. The Bowlater was near the front door.
When Bowlater saw the officers getting out of his squad’s car, he fired at them. He then fled the door in front of the house, where he killed her husband Melissa and Mark Hartman.
Surrender
When Boeleter left the heartman’s house, he left his fake police SUV. According to court documents, inside the car, the police gave the police a 9mm handgun, three AK 47 assault rifles, the flights gave a local anti -Trump “Nine Kings” rally and a notebook advertisement that contains the names of those who appear.
Since then, Boeleter has been running away. There has been little revelation about his movement during this period, though police say he visited his part -time residence in North Manipolis. He sent the text. In one, on his family’s group chat, Boeleter writes, “Father went to war last night”. Another, for a close friend, Boylitter says he has died soon.
Police also know that early Saturday morning, Bowlitter met a man at a mini -Plus bus stop who agreed to sell him to E -Bike and fool Sidan for $ 900. The two went to a bank where Bowltar withdrew 200,200 from his account. A security camera is shown wearing a cobby cap.
But the authorities closed until 10am on Sunday. Police searched the area near the Bowlater family house in the Green Oil Rural community, with a cowboy cap and a handwritten letter to the FBI, in which Bowltar confessed to the shooting.
Law enforcement officials entered the area to set up a frame, Swat teams and search dogs were deployed, and the drone was put in the air.
However, it was a resident’s trail camera, which provided the last gesture, which photographed a Boylter at around 7pm, allowing officers to restrict their search.
Two hours later, the end of the pursuit of the pursuit of the police with Bowltor was ringing. He was armed but surrendered without any fight.