Vance Boelter: Federal grand jury indicts man accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman

Menabolis – A major federal jury charged a man on Tuesday for a fatal charge of a prominent representative in Minnesota and her husband and a serious injury to the Senate member and his wife while allegedly he was a police officer.

The indictment handed over the lists of killing, chase and firearms against Vans Poilter. The murder is concerned with the death of former House of Representatives, Melissa Hortmann and her husband, Mark, who can carry a federal death penalty.

Note: The video is from a previous report.

Federal public prosecutors described Minnesota’s murder as political assassination.

Prosecutors were initially accused by the same charges. But under the rules of the federal court, they needed the list of the major arbitration committee to take the case to the trial.

In this court hall, Vans Powlter, the right, appears in a hearing of a federal court on Monday, June 16, 2025, in Saint -Paul, Minnesota.

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Prosecutors say Potter, 57, who lived in Sibli’s rural province, south of Minynabolis, was driving a fake band car, wearing a realistic rubber mask that covered his head and wearing tactical equipment at about two in the morning on June 14 when he went to the Senator John Hoffman, a democratic, and his wife, Vette, in the fuss of Minynabolis. He was claimed that he had shot the Senator nine times, and Hoffman is eight times, but they survived.

Prosecutors claim that he stopped at the homes of two other legislators. One of them, in Maple Group, was not at home while a police officer had feared him from the second, in a new hope. Then it was claimed that a Politer went to the Hortanz house in the nearby Brooklyn Park and killed both. Their dog was so seriously injured that it had to be disposed of.

Al -Shakawi said that the Brooklyn Park police, which was alerted to the fire in Hoffmanz, arrived at Hortman’s house at about 3:30 am, moments before the gunman opened fire on the spouses. Potler escaped and left behind his car, which included laptop computers that included dozens of Democratic officials as possible targets with their home addresses, as well as five weapons and a large amount of ammunition.

Law enforcement officers finally seized Boelter after about 40 hours, about (1.6 km) of his rural home on Green Island, after the authorities described it as the largest search for a suspect in the history of Minnesota.

His family announced last week that Senator Hoffman is outside the hospital and is now in a rehabilitation facility. YVette Hoffman was released a few days after the attack. Former President Joe Biden visited the Senator at the hospital when he was in the city for the Hortanz funeral.

Friends described Boelter as an evangelical Christian who has a conservative views of political struggle to find work. In a hearing on July 3, Boelter said he was “looking forward to the facts about the fourteenth exit.”

In an interview published by the New York Post on Saturday, Potler insisted that the shootings have nothing to do with opposing abortion or supporting President Donald Trump, but he refused to discuss the cause of Hortman’s killing and wounded Hofyan.

“You hunt hunting and I cannot talk about my condition … I will say that it does not include either Trump’s things or a professional life,” Potler wrote in a letter to the newspaper via the prison system in prison.

In the end, it will be up to the Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi, in consultation with the US Local Prosecutor’s Office, to decide whether the federal death penalty should be requested. Minnesota canceled the death penalty in the state in 1911. But the Trump administration says it intends to be aggressive in requesting the death penalty for qualified federal crimes.

Boelter also faces killing the state and attempted murder in Hennepin province, but the federal case will go first.

Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined the mourners at the funeral of Hurtanz on June 28.

Hortman led the House of Representatives from 2019 to January, and it was a driving force as the Democrats approved an ambitious list of liberal priorities in 2023. It resulted in speaking to my fans in the power -sharing deal after the November elections left the Council, and the title spokesperson Emeraita took.

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