Police arrest man for allegedly shooting Minnesota lawmakers while posing as officer

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Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was arrested on Sunday (June 15) for allegedly killing a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker and her husband while posing as a police officer, Governor Tim Walz said.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yb5dnz4e  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The man suspected of killing Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and seriously

00:07wounding Senator John Hoffman and his wife, has been apprehended.

00:12The suspect has been identified as 57-year-old Vance Luther Bolter, who was taken into custody

00:17late Sunday near his home in Green Isle, Sibley County.

00:21After a two-day manhunt, two sleepless nights, law enforcement have apprehended Vance Bolter.

00:28That's 48 hours that law enforcement involved in a complex and dangerous manhunt, spent

00:34Father's Day away from their families to deliver justice for Melissa and Mark Hortman and their

00:41children who spent this Father's Day alone.

00:44Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot in their

00:48Brooklyn Park home.

00:50According to Walls, Bolter had gone to the Hortman's residence after allegedly shooting

00:55Senator Hoffman and his wife multiple times in their Champlin home, approximately 15 kilometers

01:01away.

01:02The Hoffmans have undergone surgery and are currently recovering.

01:06Bolter was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree attempted

01:10murder, according to a Hennepin County criminal complaint.

01:14Police officers reportedly witnessed him shoot Mark Hortman before fleeing the scene.

01:18About 2 a.m. this morning, there was an original call in the city of Champlin where there was

01:24an individual that had shot Senator Hoffman and his wife.

01:28Police responded to that location.

01:30They were dealing with that and working through that process overnight.

01:34And then later on, at approximately 3.35, another call came in when it was officers proactively

01:43checking because they knew of the incident that occurred.

01:46And they were going to check on Speaker Hortman at that time, at which time Brooklyn Park police

01:52officers encountered the individual who immediately fired at them.

01:57And they exchanged gunfire.

01:59And then the individual was able to escape during that exchange of gunfire.

02:03The FBI had offered a US$50,000 reward for information leading to Bolter's arrest.

02:09And more than 100 officers, including SWAT teams, joined the intensive search.

02:14Authorities received over 400 public tips, with search efforts focused in rural Sibley County,

02:20around 80 kilometers southwest of Minneapolis, where Bolter lived with his wife and five children.

02:26Walz described Hortman's death as a political assassination and ordered flags flown at half-staff

02:33in her memory.

02:35Hortman, Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House, leaves behind two children.

02:40Bolter is a former political appointee who previously served on the state's Workforce Development Board

02:45alongside Hoffman, though the extent of their relationship remains unclear.

02:50Text messages viewed by the Associated Press showed Bolter apologizing to friends around

02:556 a.m. Saturday, though he did not specify what he had done.

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03:21But there were some people who were able to live with the people who are a little bit before.

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