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The man accused of having killed a minnesota legislator and of having injured another went to the home of two other legislators on fire, intended to inflict more carnage against those of his success list, a federal prosecutor announced on Monday.
But one of the other legislators was on vacation and the accused left the other house after the arrival of the police early on Saturday, American lawyer Joseph Thompson said at a press conference.
Vance Boelter has meticulously planned the attacks, carrying out surveillance missions, taking notes on the houses and the people he targeted and disguising himself as a police officer on the night of the attacks, said Thompson.
“It is not an exaggeration to say that his crimes are the nightmare,” he said.
Boelter went to the police on Sunday after finding him in the woods near his home after a massive man hunt for almost two days that started near Minneapolis. He is accused of pretending to be an officer and shooting the former president of the American Democratic Chamber Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, at their home early Saturday in the northern minneapolis suburbs.
The authorities say that he also shot senator John Hoffman, a democrat, and his wife, Yvette, who only lived a few kilometers.
Federal prosecutors announced on Monday that they had charged Boelter, 57, of federal murder, of hunting offenses. He is already faced with state accusations, including murder and attempted murder.
Boelter had many notebooks full of plans and made efforts to find the addresses of his victims and family members, said Thompson. But the authorities have found no writing which “would clearly identify what motivated him,” he said. Although the targets are democrats and elected officials, Thompson said it was too early to speculate on all kinds of political ideology that could explain his motivations.
The authorities refused to appoint the other two elected officials that Boelter would have tracked down but who escaped the damage. But they said it was clear that the shots were politically motivated.
“This was a targeted attack on people who answered the call to the public service,” said Alvin Winston, the special agent in charge of the FBI field office in Minneapolis. The resulting research, he said, was the greatest search for a suspect in state history.
Boelter’s wife has agreed to an excavation of her phone by the police, according to an affidavit of the FBI which quotes from a text that Boelter sent to a family group chat: “Dad went to war last night … I do not want to say more because I do not want to imply anyone.”
His wife received another text which said: “The words will not explain how sorry I am for this situation … There will be people who will come to the armed house and to trigger, and I do not want you to do,” said the Affidavit.
Suspect taken in the woods of Minnesota near his home
At one point, Boelter bought an electronic bike and a Buick sedan from someone he met during a bus stop in North Minneapolis, the federal affidavit said. Police found the sedan abandoned on a motorway on Sunday morning.
In the car, the police discovered that a Cowboy Boelter hat had been seen carrying in surveillance images as well as a letter written to the FBI, the authorities said. The letter indicated that it had been written by “Dr. Vance Luther Boulter” and said that he was “the shooter in general in Minnesota involved in the two shots”.
The car was found in the rural county of Sibley, where Boelter lived, and a police officer reported that he thought he saw Boelter running in the woods. The police called 20 different tactical teams, dividing the area to search.
During the search, the police said they confirmed that someone was in the woods and had looked for hours, using a helicopter and officers on foot until they find Boelter. He went to the police, crawling to the police before being handcuffed and placed in police custody, the authorities said.
Prison files show that Boelter was sentenced early Monday in Hennepin County prison.
