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Vance Boelter, the antheral who authorities judge changeable two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses successful politically motivated shootings aboriginal Saturday morning, is present successful custody. He present faces charges of execution and attempted murder.
Law enforcement officials said Boelter, 57, was taken into custody aft being located successful the woods adjacent his location successful Green Isle, successful Sibley County, connected Sunday night.
Hennepin County tribunal records amusement Boelter is charged with 2 counts of second-degree execution and 2 counts of second-degree attempted murder. He is owed successful tribunal Monday afternoon. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office posted these booking photos of Boelter aft his capture:
Vance L. Boelter booking photos released connected June 16, 2025.
Hennepin County Sheriff's Office
Shortly earlier 10 p.m., the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office posted a representation connected societal media that appears to amusement Boelter being taken into custody.
"The look of evil," the sheriff's bureau wrote. "After relentless and determined constabulary work, the slayer is present successful custody. Thanks to the dedication of aggregate agencies moving unneurotic on with enactment from the community, justness is 1 measurement closer."
The look of evil. After relentless and determined constabulary work, the slayer is present successful custody. Thanks to the dedication of...
Posted by Ramsey County Sheriff's Office on Sunday, June 15, 2025The hunt had been going connected since aboriginal Saturday, when Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her hubby Mark were changeable and killed successful their Brooklyn Park location and authorities Sen. John Hoffman, besides a Democrat, and his woman Yvette were changeable successful their location successful Champlin. Gov. Tim Walz told a quality league Sunday nighttime that John Hoffman is retired of his final surgery and is moving toward betterment and Yvette Hoffman is healing.
The manhunt for Boelter lasted implicit 36 hours, arsenic authorities issued shelter-in-place orders for parts of the northwest metro.
Brooklyn Park constabulary Chief Mark Burley said during the quality league that this was the largest manhunt successful authorities history.
"Boelter exploited the spot our uniforms are meant to represent," Bob Jacobson, commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Public Safety, said during the quality conference. "That betrayal is profoundly disturbing to those of america who deterioration the badge with grant and responsibility."
Authorities said Boelter impersonated constabulary officers arsenic helium approached their homes and changeable his victims.
Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Col. Jeremy Geiger said astatine the quality league that successful the end, Boelter surrendered — crawling to officers to springiness himself up.
State and instrumentality enforcement officials react
Walz told the Sunday nighttime quality league that the authorities volition bash what it tin to guarantee fairness and justness prevail.
"You tin remainder assured that we volition enactment each ounce of effort that the authorities of Minnesota has to marque definite that justness is served and the idiosyncratic liable for this serves the clip for the unspeakable act," helium said.
Walz besides thanked instrumentality enforcement for their enactment successful uncovering Boelter.
"That's 48 hours that instrumentality enforcement [was] progressive successful a analyzable and unsafe manhunt, spent Father's Day distant from their families to present justness for Melissa and Mark Hortman, and their children, who spent this Father's Day alone," helium said.
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said his squad volition proceed to enactment and stitchery evidence.
"The archetypal measurement successful a lawsuit similar this is that we instrumentality him into custody," Evans said. "And past the enactment volition proceed and statesman to marque definite that we person each the grounds we request to guarantee that helium is held accountable for his crimes."
Speaker Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, said the pursuing successful a written statement:
"I'm grateful that this nightmare has travel to an extremity with the suspected murderer captured live truthful helium tin beryllium charged, prosecuted, and punished for the fearfulness helium has wrought connected our state. Thank you to the brave men and women of local, state, and national instrumentality enforcement who person worked astir the timepiece to guarantee this evil antheral faces justice."
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar successful a written connection thanked instrumentality enforcement for locating and arresting Boelter, saying it was a "mammoth and heroic effort."
Officials said Brooklyn Park constabulary arrived astatine Hortman's location astir 3:30 a.m. Saturday and recovered a car that looked similar a constabulary SUV with exigency lights on. Boelter past near the location and exchanged gunfire with constabulary officers earlier fleeing connected foot.
Walz called Hortman's decease a "political assassination" and ordered flags to fly astatine fractional staff to grant her and her husband. Hortman, who served arsenic the Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House, leaves down 2 children.
Aki Nace has been a web shaper for CBS Minnesota since 2019. She covers breaking quality and makes short-form documentary films.
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