Overview

• A federal grand jury returned murder, stalking and firearms charges against Boelter over the June 14 shootings that killed former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
• Prosecutors say Boelter wore a realistic police uniform and mask and drove a fake squad car to carry out the predawn attack on Democratic lawmakers at their Brooklyn Park and Champlin homes.
• He remains jailed without bail on state first-degree murder and federal counts that could carry the death penalty while awaiting arraignment on the indictment later this month.
• In jailhouse interviews he denied any ties between the shootings and his support for President Trump or anti-abortion views and has demanded public release of a handwritten letter seized by the FBI.
• The June 14 assault prompted the largest manhunt in Minnesota history and led investigators to recover nearly 50 firearms and notebooks listing more than 50 Democratic targets while finding no evidence for his claim that Gov. Tim Walz directed any killings.