The authorities said they identified Vance Luther Boelter, 57, as a suspect while looking for the gunman who allegedly shot and killed a state representative and shot and wounded a state senator in an act of early objective violence early on Saturday.
The authorities said they are still investigating whether Boelter knew the victims in Saturday’s shooting: state representative Melissa Hortman and state senator John Hoffman.
“There is certainly an overlap with some, you know, public meetings, I will say, with Senator Hoffman and the individual,” the authorities said.
Police published this photo of Boelter taken on Saturday.
The authorities said they identified Vance Boelter, 57, as a person of interest.
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Doctors of Minnesota Democrats were on a list of objectives written by the gunman, according to sources of application of the law.
Minnesota Democrats in the list included Governor Tim Walz, the American representative Ilhan Omar, the American senator Tina Smith and the state attorney general Keith Ellison, according to sources of application of the law familiar with the matter.
The governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, talks about the murder of state representative Mellisa Hortman and her husband in the state emergency operations center in Blaine, Minnesota, on June 14, 2025.
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Police said the list, which was recovered from the suspect vehicle, also called Hortman and Hoffman. Both victims are Democrats and Hortman was previously the president of the Chamber of Representatives of Minnesota.
The list of potential objectives of the shooter also included the names of suppliers of abortions and pro-election activists, several sources told ABC News. Many of the Democratic legislators on the list have been Franco on property positions, two sources said.
Security resources have been sent to protect the people named on the list, authorities said. Capitol Police said he is “working with our federal, state and local partners.”
The neighborhood canvas officers after what the police said it was an objective shooting in the area around the Edinburgh golf course in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on June 14, 2025.
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The shootings began around 2 in the morning on Saturday when Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, received several shots at their home in Champlin, Minnesota, authorities said.
“We are cautiously optimistic that they will survive this murder attempt,” Walz said at a press conference.
Senator John Hoffman is shown in this file photo without date.
Courtesy of the Minnesota Senate photographer’s office
After Hoffman was shot, the officers headed to proactively verify Hortman, who lived in the nearby city of Brooklyn Park, police said.
Around 3:35 am, the officers found the suspect, who was dressed as a police officer, leaving Hortman’s house, police said.
The suspect shot the officers; Shots were exchanged and the suspect could escape and flee on foot, authorities said.
Hortman and her husband, Mark, were found fatally at home, police said.
The president of the House of Representatives, Melissa Hortman, calls questions to the members of the press after a session of the house on the floor, February 12, 2024.
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The suspect’s vehicle, which looked like a police vehicle, including police lights, was on the entrance road of Hortman, the authorities said, and the list of potential objectives was found inside the car.
A human hunt for the gunman is ongoing. Brooklyn Park is under a refuge order instead, authorities said
The police deployed as a human hunt for a shooter who attacked two state legislators, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on June 14, 2025.
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Walz said in a statement: “We are not a country that resolves our differences to gunpoint. We have demonstrated again and again in our state that it is possible to disagree peacefully, that the exit state is strengthened with the civil public debate. We must be united against all forms of violence.”
“We will not save any appeal to take those responsible to justice,” he added.
Walz warned: “By great precaution”, Minnesotanes should not attend any political manifestation in the state until the suspect is caught.
The flyers that read “No Reyes” were found in the suspect’s car, authorities said. Thousands of protests on the “No Kings Day” will be held in the United States on Saturday to protest the Trump administration and to counterprogram the military parade in Washington, DC
This is a development story. Consult the updates again.
Luke Barr, Mike Levine and Katherine Faulders of ABC News contributed to this report.
