Federal grand jury indicts suspect accused of targeting Minnesota lawmakers in deadly shooting spree
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A federal grand jury has officially charged Vance Boelter with six federal offenses stemming from shootings that resulted in the deaths of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, and left another lawmaker and his wife injured.

“Vance Boelter executed a horrifying plan that deeply unsettled the state of Minnesota,” commented acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. “These politically motivated killings are unprecedented here.”

“Today, I feel a sense of relief knowing that justice will be pursued for the violent acts committed,” stated Hope Hoffman. “Although I was not physically injured, I am permanently affected by the trauma of seeing my parents nearly killed and experiencing a gun pointed at me.”

Tim Walz

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a press conference held at the Minnesota Emergency Management Center following the arrest of Vance Boelter, the suspect in the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband and the attempted assassination of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in Minnesota, United States on May 15, 2025.  (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The indictment comes shortly after Boelter spoke out about the alleged killings in a jailhouse interview, looking to eliminate certain theories surrounding the motivations behind the attacks. 

“You are fishing and I can’t talk about my case,” Vance Boelter wrote to the New York Post from the Sherburne County Jail last week. “I’ll say it didn’t involve either the Trump stuff or pro-life.”

“I am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn’t those,” he reportedly said in a message sent from the jail’s internal messaging system. “I will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in future that people will look at and judge for themselves that goes back 24 months before the 14th. If the gov ever let’s [sic] it get out.”  

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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