Crime Two Minnesota Lawmakers Shot

[KAZSoliloquy]

Yeah, a Republican that donated to Biden.

you say that like it's hard to believe.

 

[Seano]

lmfao. the guy posted consistently on social media how bad he wanted to kill BLM protestors, then texted his friend he was about to go outside and see if he could kill a BLM protestor, so he drove his car into a crowd. a legally armed protestor confronted him after trying to drive his car into a crowd of peopl, so he got out and started shooting.

the facts are not debatable. the fucking guy got convicted in TEXAS. and again, you all cheered it on because he killed someone protesting the mistreatment of black people

I'm just saying its a weak example of two morons with guns, one or the other was going to end up dead. I think you could have found a less debatable example. If the thread were about Darwin awards, perhaps it would have worked.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Peaceful looking photo of the arrest. guy doesn't look like he's a murder suspect that spent two days evading police.

His trial is going to be interesting. Especially if he testifies in his own defence.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Yeah pretty shitty wording. Looking further at that dude's twitter, he seems to be a total nutter who is convinced Walz is connected to this.

Glad they caught him alive
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He worked in a funeral home?

The Undertaker can play him in the Amazon movie.

 

[WklySportsMemes]

I always hated this feature on sherdog. Changing someone’s post is bad faith. And let me guess you’ll make me say I actually love it so don’t.

He did the same exact thing for the Trump assassination attempt. Same idiots. Wash Rince Repeat with always being wrong.

Lold. Are you ever right about anything?

Unfortunately they never are. Yet they will keep making bold claims & predictions as if they are always right. Then conspiracies to cope.
I've never seen a group of people that have to create so much fan fiction just to justify every current event not fitting their weird narratives or agenda.

 

[Broke Lester]

The funniest/saddest thing about this dude, is I bet he believes he's going to Heaven for what he did, that he's "fighting the devil" by going after evil Democratic lawmakers. What a fucking dumb piece of shit, I hope he gets raped and fucked up in prison.

This is literally what Muslims believe when killing gays and infidels, but I bet you haven't noticed.

 

[Confucamus]

oh no problem. this entire thread:

Crime Post in thread 'TX man murders BLM protestor. Abbot vows to pardon murderer ASAP'

May 17, 2024

Shouldn't have been charged in the first place. There's a real strange line of logic with leftists that it's okay for BLM to protest "injustice", yet support them using illegal and violent methods to do so. On top of that, you shouldn't be able to protect yourself against a violent BLM protestor either.

You would literally look like that if a murderer representing BLM were pardoned, though.

Of course. We'd react the same way if someone from the KKK or Al-Qaeda was pardoned too. But Perry wasn't part of any terrorist group. He was a civilian who was forced to use his firearm in...

• Confucamus

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you have a few dozen posts defending a man who was convicted of cold-blooded premeditated murder because the victim was a BLM protestor lol

Eh, Perry was surrounded and trapped by protestors and one of them ran up on him with an AK-47. How in the world is that similar to politicians being assassinated. They did not instigate this violence in any justifiable way.

 

[SKYNET]

*sigh* you realize your post history is public right?

And? If you find something you have a problem with, don't be a coward, step up to the plate like you have a pair.

violence is necessary sometimes.

Of course you don't care. Unabashed sociopath.

Violence is the easy outlet for the weakest in our society that don't have enough intellect to persuade or motivate.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Suspect in shootings of Minnesota lawmakers caught and charged with murder​

Vance Boelter accused of killing legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding John Hoffman and his wife

Victoria Bekiempis, Richard Luscombe and agencies

The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one legislator and her husband, is set to appear in court on Monday afternoon charged with two counts of murder and two of attempted murder.

Vance Boelter, 57, is charged with fatally shooting the Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, at their residence early on Saturday. Boelter is also accused of shooting the state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their home, seriously injuring them.


He was booked into the Hennepin county jail in Minneapolis shortly after 1am Monday, ending a two-day search that Mark Bruley, the Brooklyn Park police chief, called the “largest manhunt in the state’s history”.

“One man’s unthinkable actions have altered the state of Minnesota,” its Democratic governor, Tim Walz, said at a news conference.


Bruley told reporters that Boelter was arrested in a rural area in Sibley county, southwest of Minneapolis, adding that he was armed when he was taken into custody.

Authorities located a vehicle he had been using abandoned on Sunday, and a police officer reported that he believed he saw Boelter running into the woods. Bruley said about 20 different tactical teams searched inside a perimeter for him.

He was located after an hours-long operation that included a helicopter, the police chief said. When Boelter was found, he crawled out to officers in the woods and was handcuffed and taken into custody in a field.

A criminal complaint unsealed Sunday night said Boelter faces two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder in the deaths of the Hortmans and the wounding of Hoffman and his wife.

Authorities alleged Boelter fled on foot after police responded to a shooting at Hortman’s house. Authorities alleged Boelter was wearing a police uniform that so closely resembled an actual law enforcement uniform that most civilians wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

Walz, announcing the attacks on the prominent Democratic state lawmakers on Saturday, said the shootings appeared to be “a politically motivated assassination”.

A list of about 70 names was found in writings recovered from a fake police vehicle that was left at the crime scene, two law enforcement officials told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The writings and list of names included prominent state and federal lawmakers and community leaders, along with abortion rights advocates and information about healthcare facilities, according to the officials.

A Minnesota official, also speaking anonymously, told AP that lawmakers who had been outspoken in favor of abortion rights were on the list.

Boelter is a former political appointee who served on the same state workforce development board as Hoffman, records show, though it was not clear if or how well they knew each other.

At about 6am Saturday, Boelter texted friends to apologize for his actions – but did not say what he had done.

“I’m going to be gone for a while. May be dead shortly, so I just want to let you know I love you guys both and I wish it hadn’t gone this way,” he wrote in messages viewed by the AP.

Earlier Sunday, Drew Evans, superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said at a news conference a nationwide warrant had been issued for the suspect’s arrest.

Evans said authorities found a car very early Sunday they believed Boelter was using, a few miles from his home in Green Isle, in the farm country about an hour west of Minneapolis. He also said they found evidence in the car that was relevant to the investigation, but did not provide details.

The superintendent also said authorities interviewed Boelter’s wife and other family members in connection with Saturday’s shootings. He said they were cooperative and were not in custody.

The FBI had issued a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction. They circulated a photo taken Saturday of Boelter wearing a tan cowboy hat and asked the public to report sightings.

On Sunday evening, US Senator Amy Klobuchar shared a statement from Yvette Hoffman expressing appreciation for the outpouring of public support.

“John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods,” Yvette Hoffman said in a text that Klobuchar posted on social media. “He took 9 bullet hits. I took 8 and we are both incredibly lucky to be alive. We are gutted and devastated by the loss of Melissa and Mark.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/minnesota-shooting-suspect-arrest-reports

 

[oldshadow]

i condemn most political violence.

unless it's during wartime or an assassination of a political leader/military asset, of course. dont pretend you draw some kind of line at killing people for political reasons. you only care depending on who's doing the killing and who's being killed.

Well then that would justifie his actions to some. If it was about abortion then he was trying to save the lifes of babies by killing theses people. So its defense of those that can't defend themselves.

And yes that's as stupid as it sounds and fucked up as hell.

In the US you don't murder people because you don't agree with them politically. You don't attack and destroy their property or them. We have legal means to address political disagreement.

 

[MrShady]

4chan is saying it's this 57 year old dude that has a security firm.
i'm not posting anymore of this cause it looks flimsy as hell.
so far nothing solid.

 

[USA!USA!]

It really doesn't matter whether he was a republican or a democrat - people should shut the hell up about that.. as if its a point of pride he wasn't "one of yours" - You sound extremely dumb and foolish. Who cares???

No one - left or right's - political ideology is telling people to murder legislators - the guy was clearly just unhinged and psychotic, and maybe had a mental break.

Evil psychos exist in this country, and they always will. Don't blame one party for the actions of a truly twisted individual.

 

[badascan]

Not fitting my politics, tin foil being prepared ....

What parts not fitting your politics?

 

[CubicleGangster]

It really doesn't matter whether he was a republican or a democrat - people should shut the hell up about that.. as if its a point of pride he wasn't "one of yours" - You sound extremely dumb and foolish. Who cares???

No one - left or right's - political ideology is telling people to murder legislators - the guy was clearly just unhinged and psychotic, and maybe had a mental break.

Evil psychos exist in this country, and they always will. Don't blame one party for the actions of a truly twisted individual.

While I understand your point in this post, since this news has broken there has been a concentrated effort by right wing social media (and posters on this site) to craft a narrative that they were killed for voting against their own party. As well as pushing a narrative the suspect is a leftist connected to Walz.

I personally think it is important to pushback against such nonsense.

 

[USA!USA!]

While I understand your point in this post, since this news has broken there has been a concentrated effort by right wing social media (and posters on this site) to craft a narrative that they were killed for voting against their own party. As well as pushing a narrative the suspect is a leftist connected to Walz.

I personally think it is important to pushback against such nonsense.

LIterally both sides are doing this. It is not just the republicans/right wing social media personalities.

I've seen leftists post about how he is a right wing terrorist who is a registered republican and a Christian fundamentalist.

It just needs to stop. This guy doesn't represent anyone but himself.

 

[CubicleGangster]

LIterally both sides are doing this. It is not just the republicans/right wing social media personalities.

I've seen leftists post about how he is a right wing terrorist who is a registered republican and a Christian fundamentalist.

It just needs to stop. This guy doesn't represent anyone but himself.

Nope, not gonna listen to the 'both sides' crap on this one bud.

 

[Hog-train]

He's going to start a Gofundme calling people the N-word and make millions for his defense.

 

[USA!USA!]

Nope, not gonna listen to the 'both sides' crap on this one bud.

It literally is both sides lmao

Go ahead stay in your silo though - if you broke free of your bubble you’d know they are BOTH doing it

 

[CubicleGangster]

It literally is both sides lmao

Go ahead stay in your silo though - if you broke free of your bubble you’d know they are BOTH doing it

What bubble am I in? I am the one who created this thread and was following the news in real time. I watched this false narrative spread in real time from Twitter to Instagram to finally here. Nothing like that was coming from left leaning twitter or social media early on. I didn't see anything hit my timeline or my social media about him being a Trump voter or crazy evangelical until details of the manifesto were leaked and his targeting of Democrat officials and pro-choice proponents were confirmed.

Even still there is people trying to push he was something he was not. Bullshit like this:


It is important to push back against things like that. You can go ahead and disagree all you want. I myself will continue calling out bullshit as I see fit.

 

[USA!USA!]

It is important to push back against things like that. You can go ahead and disagree all you want. I myself will continue calling out bullshit as I see fit.

So what is the bullshit here?

Nothing I said is bullshit. It actually happened and people were sharing that information.

I'm not saying its true. I'm saying both sides do it and its all garbage.