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

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1933945792542241202

 

[MassGuy]

From Praetorian Guard website:

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Features | Praetorian Guard Security Services

This sounds like a good 'excuse' to accumulated weapons, body armor and police-like vehicles.

The website isn't very extensive and the other 'leadership team' members besides Vance are only named by their first name.

I'm laughing reading that. It's overly aggressive, and just plain strange. Not professional at all.

 

[Lore Listener]

Works for two funeral homes transporting bodies six days a week. Has a wife and five kids. Helped set up a food system in the Congo - philanthropic work. He took the job at the funeral home because it worked well with his schedule.

What a great guy … certainly doesn’t compute to turning into a murderer.

Bet he won’t be taken alive, JMO.

I hate to say it, but sometimes people who look like wonderful people on paper (especially when self-described) are anything but wonderful in reality. Sadly, foreign countries with less privilege and oversight can provide cover for very bad people to do very bad things that would get them caught much quicker here in the US. Remember this recent example from our home state? It feels like you just can't trust anybody anymore.

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[FlamingoLady]

I'm laughing reading that. It's overly aggressive, and just plain strange. Not professional at all.

Almost like it's fake, or a shell company.....

 

[DS2021]

Police seek ex-Tim Walz appointee in connection to Minnesota shootings

A former appointee of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is being sought by police in connection with the fatal shooting of a state lawmaker.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Police are searching for Vance Luther Boelter, 57, who was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four-year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, sources told The New York Post

 

[Otterly]

What flipped this guy from being appointed by Walz to serve, to putting his name on a political hit list?

I was thinking maybe COVID. That seemed event pushed a lot of people off the edge into conspiracy theorism.

 

[browneyes]

I'm laughing reading that. It's overly aggressive, and just plain strange. Not professional at all.

His company, Praetorian Guard, sounds like the bad guys from Sandra Bullock’s movie, The Net.

 

[Doghairrules]

I’m curious about the flyers in his vehicle. If his “big” target was the protests then why would he give himself away by attacking two smaller targets first? Now they are ready for him. I mean I’m glad he’s apparently stupid, but also for such a careful planner it seems weird.

 

[kuromiiiilove]

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Looks like he resigned from the Dakota-Scott Workforce Development Board sometime last year. Which is different from the Governor's Workforce Development Board.

 

[Tricia]

Hey Everyone,
I am on my phone and it is hard to moderate.
The pictures you are posting are you sure it is the same person as is being named?

 

[FlamingoLady]

I would like to know the truth about #1- His financial situation & #2- Any mental health issues.

 

[EnigmaticEpiphany]

I suspect he wanted to live at least long enough to see the media coverage of his hits, and especially his manifesto. Maybe his plan was to go to a pub to watch the tv, rather than using a phone to follow the news (because he knew his internet activity would be logged.)

 

[Knox]

His company, Praetorian Guard, sounds like the bad guys from Sandra Bullock’s movie, The Net.

Membership Pricing | Praetorian Guard Security Services

www.pguards.net

Wonder if he actually had any clients for his multi-tier security services? Never seen anything like it before. No wonder he was forced to work at a funeral home?

 

[browneyes]

Hey Everyone,
I am on my phone and it is hard to moderate.
The pictures you are posting are you sure it is the same person as is being named?

MSNBC just released his picture. The ones here are correct.

 

[browneyes]

I would like to know the truth about #1- His financial situation & #2- Any mental health issues.

MSNBC is showing his home. It’s very nice.

 

[Knox]

Hey Everyone,
I am on my phone and it is hard to moderate.
The pictures you are posting are you sure it is the same person as is being named?

Hi Tricia, yes confirmed by MSM sources to be Vance Luther Boelter.

 

[FlamingoLady]

MSNBC is showing his home. It’s very nice.

I would like to know the truth about #1- His financial situation & #2- Any mental health issues.

 

[Knox]

I would like to know the truth about #1- His financial situation & #2- Any mental health issues.

His poor wife and kids, hoping they are all safe. Media is going to be all over them now, as well as all the LE Agencies.

 

[branmuffin]

"Praetorian Guard Security Services" sounds like the name of the company owned by the villian in a cheap action movie. It makes sense a political assassin would be a weirdo nutcase, so naming your security company something odd and unusual fits.

Praetorian Guard were the guards protecting top officials in the Roman Republic Empire. I guess it's to show they are well experienced and equipped. Julius Caesar refused Praetorian escorts when he was murdered by his own men.

 

[kuromiiiilove]

Archives des Vance BOELTER - CEF La Borne Matadi

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The site has a lot of traffic, but it looks like he was also potentially a pastor? He seems to have several different careers