The man suspect of murdering a Minnesota state representative and her husband and two other individuals has been arrested by Minnesota law enforcement. Nathan Layne and Tom Polansek report at Reuters:
MINNEAPOLIS, June 15, (Reuters) – A massive two-day manhunt ended on Sunday with the arrest of Vance Boelter, 57, for allegedly killing a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker and her husband while posing as a police officer, Governor Tim Walz said.
Boelter allegedly shot dead Melissa Hortman, the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, in their home on Saturday – a crime Governor Tim Walz characterized as a “politically motivated assassination.”
This whole matter has been horrid and reprehensible. One of the things that has struck me is the pains to which both Democrats and Republicans have gone to cast political blame for the crime on the other side. Can’t we just acknowledge that these murders are horrible and unjustified and leave it at that? We’ll know more about it soon enough.
“One of the things that has struck me is the pains to which both Democrats and Republicans have gone to cast political blame for the crime on the other side.”
Completely agree. Clearly this guy is just mentally disturbed. Skip the food fight.
Wish we could but people in both parties go out of their way to make it so and they get paid a lot to do it. Still, I cant help but notice that this incident had more deaths than the protests in LA and they managed to handle it without calling up the Guard.
Steve