(Bloomberg) – A man suspected of killing the legislator of a democratic state and her husband in Minnesota was arrested and appears in court on Monday.
Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested on Sunday evening after the weekend fall, which had the region on the edge. The Federal Investigation Office offered a $ 50,000 remuneration for information leading to its captivity.
Boelter has been booked to Hennepin County’s prison and is held for accusations of murder of $ 5 million. On Monday, he is scheduled for the Minneapolis court in eastern time at 14:30.
Melissa Hortman, a democratic leader in the State House, and her husband Mark, were fatally shot on Saturday at their house in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of minneapolis. John Hoffman, a democratic State Senator of Minnesota and his wife Yvette, were injured by independent shooting in their house, which was also associated with the suspect. According to the FBI, the shooter pretended to be a police officer.
Shooting caused fear in Minnesota the day when the protesters filled the streets in cities across the US to oppose the administration of Republican President Donald Trump when he organized a military show in Washington. The attacks have restored the focus on political violence that both political parties have condemned for years. The threats against national lawmakers in Washington increased to 9,000 out of 1700 in 2016 last year, said US Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat.
In a report published by Klobuchar Yvette Hoffman, she said she was shot eight times and her husband, John, nine times.
“We are both incredibly lucky to be alive,” Yvette Hoffman wrote. “For this kind of political hate is never a place.”
The authorities found that Boelter was crawling through the forests near his home in the Sibley district, reported by the Associated Press. Previously they found the vehicle he used in the rural area, said ap.
Speculation focused on the alleged list of interventions that remained at the crime scene that included several Minnesota politicians and abortion providers in the state, according to the government document seen by Bloomberg News.
“It is not a document that would be a traditional manifesto, which is a treatise on all kinds of ideology and writings,” said Drew Evans, superintendent of state criminal detention. Instead, he called “a laptop with a lot of legislators and others who are listed,” together with “other ideas”.
Evans warned of speculating about the suspect’s motives and refused to work on the list in the notebook.
-S assistance from Miranda Davis.
(Update with details of arrest and planned court performance.)
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