Overview

• The six-count indictment charges Boelter with stalking two Democratic lawmakers with intent to murder, capital murder of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, plus firearms offenses and the attempted killing of a senator’s daughter.
• Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson filed a notice of special findings that initiates consideration of the death penalty, a decision that Attorney General Pam Bondi will make in the coming months.
• In jailhouse interviews, Boelter denied that support for President Trump or pro-life beliefs motivated the predawn shootings and said a sealed letter he addressed to the FBI contains undisclosed evidence.
• Investigators recovered notebooks in Boelter’s abandoned vehicle listing dozens of Democratic officials with home addresses, underscoring the assailant’s extensive extremist planning.
• Authorities say Boelter carried out the June 14 attacks disguised in a hyper-realistic police uniform and driving a fake squad car and was captured after a 40-hour statewide manhunt.