Boelter may have impersonated a law enforcement officer in the attacks, police said.
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The FBI announced a $50,000 reward “for info leading to the arrest and conviction of Vance L. Boelter,” and released a photo (below) that reportedly shows the suspect at the door of one of the shooting victims, apparently wearing a head-covering mask and police costume, early Saturday morning.
A police alert warned that the “suspect is armed and dangerous and may be impersonating law enforcement,” according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
“My good friend and colleague, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination,” Walz said at a press conference Saturday.
At 10:33 a.m. on Saturday, Walz said Hoffman and his wife were “out of surgery” and receiving care, and that “we are cautiously optimistic that they will survive this assassination attempt,” though Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, was not able to provide an update in an afternoon news conference on the senator’s status.
Boelter texted two of his roommates, one told the Minnesota Star Tribune, saying he wrote that he “may be dead shortly.”
According to the roommate, the text read: “I love you guys. I made some choices, and you guys don’t know anything about this, but 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.
