Overview

• Vance Boelter has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and two counts of attempted murder for the shootings of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
• Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, are recovering after undergoing multiple surgeries for gunshot wounds sustained in the attack.
• Prosecutors say Boelter donned an officer’s uniform, drove a Ford SUV equipped with emergency lights, and exchanged fire with responding officers at Hortman’s home.
• Investigators recovered three AK-47 rifles, a 9-mm handgun and a dossier of about 70 targets, including prominent Democrats and abortion rights advocates, in his vehicle.
• Governor Tim Walz condemned the incident as a politically motivated assassination and pledged to prevent such violence from becoming a norm in American political life.