Overview

• Boelter denied that his support for President Trump or a pro-life worldview motivated the predawn attack that killed former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounded Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
• He told reporters authorities have withheld key information from a handwritten letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel discovered in his getaway vehicle and says the letter contains crucial context.
• Boelter remains jailed without bail on $5 million bond facing state second-degree murder charges and six federal stalking and murder-related counts.
• Prosecutors will present the case to a federal grand jury in mid-July after filing charges in Hennepin and Sherburne counties.
• His wife, Jennifer Boelter, has maintained through her lawyer that she was shocked and had no involvement in the attack, condemning the violence as a betrayal of their family’s beliefs.