Minnesota Shooting Suspect Went to the Homes of Two Other Elected Officials, US Attorney Says

The suspected shooter of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses visited the homes of two other officials the same night.

Late Sunday night, Vance Boelter was located and taken into custody following a two-day manhunt. Boelter is accused of shooting Democratic State House Speaker Emerita Melissa Horton and Democratic State Sen. John Hoffman — as well as their spouses. Horton and her husband were killed.

During a Monday press conference, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson revealed that Boelter — donning a “hyper-realistic” mask and wearing police gear — visited the homes of two other state officials after visiting Hoffman’s house and before going to Morton’s:

After shooting Senator Hoffman and his wife, Boelter traveled to the home of another Minnesota state representative in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Video surveillance showed that Boelter rang the doorbell at the state representative’s house at approximately 2:24 a.m. on Friday nigh. Again, he was dressed as a law enforcement officer, wearing a tactical vest and body armor, carrying a handgun and a flashlight, and wearing that same hyper-realistic silicon mask. Again, the images, as you can see on the screen, are haunting. Fortunately, the state representative was not home. She and her family were gone on vacation, and so Boelter left.

Boelter then traveled to the home of a Minnesota state senator who lived in New Hope, Minnesota. He parked in the street in that same black SUV with a police license plate at about 2:36 a.m. on Friday night.

Thompson added that once police in New Hope learned of the shooting at Hoffman’s home, they were instructed to do a wellness check on the state senator who lived in the area. The officer who arrived at the home saw Boelter’s car and mistook it for a police car. Thompson explained:

When the New Hope officer arrived at the scene, she saw Boelter’s black SUV parked down the block with the lights on. The New Hope police officer believed that Boelter was a police officer who had been dispatched to the scene to check on the status of the state senator.

The New Hope police officer pulled up next to Boelter in his car, rolled down her window, and attempted to speak with him. Boelter did not respond. According to the officer, he just sat there and stared straight ahead. So the New Hope police officer who had been dispatched to the scene proceeded to the state senator’s home, and she waited for other law enforcement to arrive. When they did, by the time they did, Boelter had left the scene.

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