Suspect in Minnesota DFL lawmaker shootings identified
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Police are hunting Vance Boelter after he allegedly shot and killed a top lawmaker and injured a senator in Minnesota.
Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman, State Sen. John Hoffman and their spouses were all shot early Saturday in targeted attacks.
Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill were at each other‘s throats. By Saturday, they were joining to decry political violence and seek more security. The middle-of-the-night killing in Minnesota of a top Democratic state lawmaker and the shooting of a colleague—allegedly by a suspect posing as a police officer who had a list of other elected officials—jolted Capitol Hill,
According to the website for his company Praetorian Guard Security Services, Boelter is listed as director of security patrols.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect in the shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers.