BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
Law Enforcement officials are looking for fugitive Vance Boelter, 57, in connection to the murder/assassination of a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and attempted assassination of another today.
Officials say that Vance Boleter had dressed impersonating a police officer, and killed Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, this morning in Minnesota. He also wounded Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in a separate attack at their homes.
via The New York Times:
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota ordered flags in his state to half-staff in honor of Representative Hortman. “Today Minnesota lost a great leader,” said Gov. Walz, a Democrat. The Republican governor of South Dakota, Larry Rhoden, issued a similar order for flags at his state’s Capitol. “Violence has no place in our political system — and it must end,” he said.
The suspect had “some overlap” with Senator John Hoffman, according to Drew Evans, the head of the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. But, he added: “We don’t know the nature of the relationship or if they actually knew each other.”
Vance Boelter, the white male suspect in the shooting of two state politicians, was last seen this morning wearing a light cowboy hat, a dark, long-sleeve collared shirt and light pants. He is also carrying a dark bag, according to Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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