He wounded Sen. John Hoffman and his wife but didn’t come into contact with the two other DFL legislators, investigators say.

Heavily armed and dressed in tactical armor with a silicone mask hiding his face and a police-style badge, Vance Boelter made a convincing police officer – so much so that a real police officer mistook him for a fellow cop.

Boelter claimed to have a doctorate of education, and said he spent extensive time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa — where he was seen in videos apparently preaching on stage.

The man accused of shooting two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses early Saturday also visited the homes of two other lawmakers, but one of them was away on vacation.

The man charged, 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, is facing "an array of federal charges" after he "stalked his victims like prey."

Two decades before he was a murder suspect in Minnesota, Vance Luther Boelter was an employee at a Gerber plant in Fort Smith, an easy-to-get-along-with, upbeat boss, a former co-worker said Monday.

Vance Luther Boelter, 57, of Green Isle, was arrested Sunday evening, June 15, in Sibley County on charges stemming from the slaying of House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her