MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced Sunday that a 57-year-old suspect in the murder of a Democratic state senator and her husband while impersonating a police officer had been taken into custody.
Melissa Hortman, the leading Democrat in the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, were shot dead the day before in what Walz called a “politically motivated assassination.” The arrest was the end of a massive manhunt.
According to authorities, Vance Luther Boelter, the suspect who was apprehended, also allegedly shot and injured state Senator John Hoffman, a Democratic politician, and his wife, Yvette, at their residence a few miles away.
