SUSPECT IN CUSTODY MN - 2 Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot by someone impersonating a police officer, JUNE 13,2025

[MrJ]

following this from Australia. Horrific. This appears to be domestic terrorism.

 

[MassGuy]

Motives aside, this case is eerily similar to the Kaufman County prosecutor murders back in 2013.

In that one, Eric Williams was going after prosecutors, gunning one down in the street before gunning down another prosecutor and his wife in their home a couple months later.

Like this Boelter guy, Williams used a vehicle that police use, and dressed in tactical clothes when he committed that second attack (this was more practical, as the couple was on guard for exactly that type of situation and was heavily armed).

Both had connections to local politics, although I'm convinced they each had very different reasons for doing what they did (Williams' was deeply personal).

 

[MissPie]

“6:15 p.m. - A 911 call center in South Dakota issued a “Be on the Lookout” for a maroon Buick at 4:35 p.m., saying the driver is a “person of interest in the events that have happened in Minnesota” and may be traveling with “the person that was involved in the homicide considered armed and dangerous.”

Search for Hortman assassination suspect stretches into the night

Authorities asked for the public’s help in finding Vance Boelter. A nephew said John and Yvette Hoffman were both in stable condition as they recover from surgery.

www.startribune.com

 

[MassGuy]

Latest updates from the NYT live blog:

The authorities have been contacting the 70 targets included on the suspect’s list to warn them, according to a law enforcement official, who also said that investigators have recovered a ballistic vest and mask that the suspect was believed to have used in the attacks on lawmakers.

June 14, 2025, 8:28 p.m. ET9 minutes ago
Pooja Salhotra
State Senator John A. Huffman and his wife Yvette remain in the hospital and will be there “for a while,” according to the couple’s nephew, Mat Ollig. “It’s just shocking that this would happen,” Ollig said in an interview.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/minnesota-shootings

 

[MassGuy]

Ok, I'm confused here. When he returned to where he was staying, did he retrieve a vehicle or am I misremembering what I read?

ETA: it looks like he went to a back alley where his vehicles were parked, but we haven’t heard if he took one or not.

Super weird.

 

[Wishbone]

Ok, I'm confused here. When he returned to where he was staying, did he retrieve a vehicle or am I misremembering what I read?

From what I have read he didn't take a car and is now suspected of being with someone in a buick possibly.

 

[Knox]

Ok, I'm confused here. When he returned to where he was staying, did he retrieve a vehicle or am I misremembering what I read?

To my knowledge it wasn’t said he left in a vehicle. Roommate told reporter he had a hammer and broke a window in one of his vehicles.

 

[Knox]

 

[Knox]

 

[Wishbone]

Ok, I'm confused here. When he returned to where he was staying, did he retrieve a vehicle or am I misremembering what I read?

ETA: it looks like he went to a back alley where his vehicles were parked, but we haven’t heard if he took one or not.

Super weird.

6:15 p.m. - Mitchell Regional Public Safety dispatch in South Dakota issued a “Be on the Lookout” for a maroon Buick at 4:35 p.m., saying the driver is a “person of interest in the events that have happened in Minnesota” and may be traveling with “the person that was involved in the homicide considered armed and dangerous.”

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Search for Hortman assassination suspect stretches into the night

Authorities asked for the public’s help in finding Vance Boelter. A nephew said John and Yvette Hoffman were both in stable condition as they recover from surgery.

www.startribune.com

 

[Leilei]

Wait, that's the family home, and it was reported that his wife/kids who lived there weren't there earlier. Also, that's a really nice house for someone who didn't have a business that was officially up and running yet.
IMO.

 

[citizen_sleuth]

Timeline
Note: All times are listed in CDT

June 13

• Time unknown: Boelter gives his roommate four months' worth of advance rent payments (his monthly rent was around $220).
• Night (exact time unknown): Boelter pulls his roommate aside and tells him how much his friendship has meant to him over the years.

June 14

• Around 2:00 a.m.: Police called to State Sen. John Hoffman's home in Champlin.
• 3:35 a.m.: Police "proactively" arrive at the State Rep. Melissa Hortman's home and exchange gunfire with Boelter, who was dressed like a police officers, before he fled the scene through the back of the house. Officers found a list of nearly 70 names of individuals –– including former and Democratic lawmakers, doctors, community and business leaders, and abortion providers –– in the Ford Explorer (with emergency lights on) Boelter left at the scene along with papers reading "No Kings" and survival gear.
• 5:30 a.m.: Brooklyn Park police issue a shelter-in-place alert for the 3-mile radius around the Edinburgh Golf Course.
• Around 6:00 a.m.: Boelter's roommates receive a text from him stating something along the lines of "I did something bad, I may be going away for a while."
• Around 6:30 a.m.: Boelter returns to the house in the 4800 block of North Freemont Avenue in Minneapolis, where he rented a room. He went to the back of the house while holding a hammer and smashed a window on one of his vehicles. Boelter was last seen on surveillance footage in the neighborhood. carrying a dark bag and wearing a cowboy hat, a dark long-sleeved shirt and light pants.
• Around 11:30 a.m.: Authorities in Champlin state that there is no current threat to residents in the city.
• Around 1:45 p.m.: Officers serve a search warrant at the house on North Freemont Avenue where Boelter was renting a room.
• 3:00 p.m.: Authorities name Boelter as a "person of interest" in the shootings.
• 3:20 p.m.: Brooklyn Park authorities lift the shelter-in-place order.
• 4:35 p.m.: Mitchell Regional Public Safety dispatch in South Dakota issues a "BOLO" for a maroon Buick which may be driven by a "person of interest in the events that have happened in Minnesota" and may be traveling with "the person that was involved in the homicide"

Other Key Information:

• Receipts for armor were found in one of the vehicles at the house in Minneapolis.
• Boelter is believed to have worn a latex mask at (at least) one of the lawmakers' homes
• A GPS device was recovered from the vehicle Boelter left outside the Hortman residence.

 

[MassGuy]

6:15 p.m. - Mitchell Regional Public Safety dispatch in South Dakota issued a “Be on the Lookout” for a maroon Buick at 4:35 p.m., saying the driver is a “person of interest in the events that have happened in Minnesota” and may be traveling with “the person that was involved in the homicide considered armed and dangerous.”

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Search for Hortman assassination suspect stretches into the night

Authorities asked for the public’s help in finding Vance Boelter. A nephew said John and Yvette Hoffman were both in stable condition as they recover from surgery.

www.startribune.com

Fantastic find. I'm not sure why more outlets haven't picked up on this yet.

 

[Wishbone]

Fantastic find. I'm not sure why more outlets haven't picked up on this yet.

misspie found it and posted it up thread

 

[flowershop]

Any guesses as to who the Buick driver might be? Colleague? Someone from one of his religious circles?

 

[MassGuy]

Any guesses as to who the Buick driver might be? Colleague? Someone from one of his religious circles?

I read it the same way you did, but reading it again it looks like he may be the driver and it’s possible he’s alone.

The “may be traveling with the person that was involved in the homicide,” is clunky, but I think that’s just how they word it.

 

[sunflowermomma]

His business was new but it seems like he held multiple managerial positions at well-known corporations, perhaps they bought the house years ago?

 

[Tealgrove]

Just catching up….

Why was he renting a room in a shared house? Is he separated/divorced?

Where is his wife/kids?

 

[Leilei]

<modsnip - quoted post was removed>
His FB was up for maybe an hour after he'd been named in the media - wonder if it was him or law enforcement who took it down?
I was nosey and checked

 

[Knox]

His business was new but it seems like he held multiple managerial positions at well-known corporations, perhaps they bought the house years ago?

Not sure how much of that I believe, he states he was a GM at nearly all if them. That was the largest employment section I’ve ever seen in a report.