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Minnesota suspected assassin Vance Boelter captured alive after intense manhunt for fatal shooting of Dem pol, spouse
nypost.com ^ | June 16, 2025 | Nicholas McEntyre, Steven Vago and Daryl Khan Published

Posted on 06/16/2025 4:33:08 AM PDT by V_TWIN

Suspected political assassin Vance Luther Boelter was captured Sunday following an intense manhunt for the gunman accused of murdering a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounding another, state officials announced.

Boelter, a 57-year-old former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, was sought by police for allegedly wounding Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and killing former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.

“After a two-day manhunt and two sleepless nights, law enforcement have apprehended Vance Boelter,” Walz said during a press briefing.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: assassin; boelter; demagogicparty; hoffman; hortman; minnesota; minniesota; timwalz; vanceboelter; walz
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To: Highest Authority

“This story is far from over”

I hope the survivors can identify him.....the whole thing is so weird who knows what might happen.

You never know, he might get Epsteined before it’s over.


21 posted on 06/16/2025 5:05:23 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: johniegrad

The press conference last night was a joke.

Many of them are, especially when the Democrat politicians get in front of the microphone.

The other day Walz ,of all people , was going on about political violence.


22 posted on 06/16/2025 5:06:46 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: V_TWIN

“Nowadays rarely are we not being surveiled in one way or another.”

The good news and the bad news, I guess.


23 posted on 06/16/2025 5:07:23 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Gen.Blather

Thanks. Very interesting.

I had read he apparently has no political party affiliation.

Personally....I find that odd as hell


24 posted on 06/16/2025 5:10:08 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Valpal1

perhaps the same reason some of them LET HIM ESCAPE
and some of them GAVE HIM LEO TRANSPORTATION AND COSTUME

some of them are in on this at each level he used.


25 posted on 06/16/2025 5:12:51 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: V_TWIN

Wow! Great!


26 posted on 06/16/2025 5:12:53 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yes, it is great news!


27 posted on 06/16/2025 5:13:29 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: V_TWIN

Yep!


28 posted on 06/16/2025 5:13:49 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Agreed!


29 posted on 06/16/2025 5:14:10 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: V_TWIN
There IS very deep party affiliation ... and thus the smile.


30 posted on 06/16/2025 5:15:59 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: V_TWIN

“I find that odd as hell”

I’m a low-end landlord. I’ve dealt with a few people who were using drugs. They can have zero sense of reality. If you only meet them briefly, they may sound coherent. One guy had been laid off from his state job. It was astonishing he had it as long as he did because I never spoke to him without him looking and sounding like he was stoned. As far as dealing with reality, I’d arrive at ten am, roust him from bed and wait for him to realize I was there in truth and not an apparition. He’d spin some story about how he was going to get the rent that made no sense and was often self-contradictory. And, yet, at other times, presumably after a hit of his drug, he sounded coherent for short periods.

I would not be surprised if the killer was using drugs or had some serious mental condition.


31 posted on 06/16/2025 5:16:49 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: Gen.Blather

I’m convinced he was drugged out of his mind, probably psych drugs and his wife left him.


32 posted on 06/16/2025 5:20:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: OldHarbor

The governor was singing a very different tune last night at the press conference to announce the capture. He was encouraging an end to political strife and the need to come to a consensus peacefully and without contention in memory of the assassinated house member.


33 posted on 06/16/2025 5:23:59 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Diogenesis

His connection to Walz needs to be scrutinized closely.


34 posted on 06/16/2025 5:26:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

A couple of things that have been missing in the news reports:

1. How did Boelter get his second car after leaving his faux police car at the second shooting? Did Boelter park his second car nearby the second shooting previously that day?

2. Why is there no reporting about the roommate who read the supposed text message from Boelter? I saw one FR posting suggesting that the roommate may have a criminal history.


35 posted on 06/16/2025 5:28:24 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: V_TWIN

Nothing about this story makes sense and us normal folk will never hear the truth.


36 posted on 06/16/2025 5:32:51 AM PDT by krug
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

When will we read that he killed himself while he is cuffed behind the back???


37 posted on 06/16/2025 5:32:52 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: mad_as_he$$

BINGO! We wil NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH BECAUSE HE’S A DEMOCRAT !


38 posted on 06/16/2025 5:35:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..H)
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To: V_TWIN

Other headlines indicate he is MAGA and Trump supporter???? He was from Minnesota and worked for Gov Walz


39 posted on 06/16/2025 5:36:10 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: krug

“Nothing about this story makes sense and us normal folk will never hear the truth”

In a democrat city and state?....it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.


40 posted on 06/16/2025 5:38:42 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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