Minnesota lawmaker shootings suspect was “prepper” who gave wife “bailout plan,” affidavit states
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Recently unsealed court documents shed more light on the mindset and actions of the man charged in connection to the deadly shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses this past weekend in the Twin Cities.
Vance Boelter, 57, is in custody and faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, on both the state and federal level, following the attack overnight Saturday that killed Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, inside their Brooklyn Park home.
Boelter’s also accused of shooting and seriously wounding Democratic Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, inside their Champlin home about 90 minutes earlier.
According to an affidavit filed by an FBI special agent, law enforcement pulled over Boelter’s wife and four children hours after the shootings on Saturday near Lake Mille Lacs. His wife told investigators they were going to visit friends after her husband posted in a family group text “they needed to get out of the house and people with guns may be showing up.”
The affidavit states Boelter’s wife told the investigator they were “preppers,” meaning they “prepare for major or catastrophic incidents.” She says her husband gave her a “bailout plan,” including a directive to go to her mother’s home in southwestern Wisconsin.
She also told investigators her husband “has a business partner from Worthington” who lives in the state of Washington. She allegedly said the two were “partners … in Red Lion, a security company and fishing outfit in Congo, Africa,” the affidavit states.
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