Officials Want Help Finding Political Assassination Suspect

(KNSI) – The manhunt is on for the suspected shooter in Saturday morning’s politically motivated attacks.

Law enforcement officials have confirmed 57-year-old Vance Boelter is wanted in connection with separate incidents that injured state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, and killed Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband.

Anyone with information should reach out to 877-996-6222 or email bca.tips@state.mn.us. A photo of Boelter wearing a tan cowboy hat and dark jacket was shown from this morning at the press conference. The picture came from a surveillance video from a Minneapolis business.

Officials believe Boelter is looking to flee the area, but did not elaborate on how he would do that. He fled from the Hortman house on foot after being confronted by law enforcement shortly after killing the former speaker.

Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner Drew Evans refused to lay out a motive for the shootings. He confirmed that investigators had visited multiple crime scenes on Saturday multiple crime scenes, including the Champlin home of Sen. Hoffman and the Brooklyn Park home of Rep. Hortman, and Boelter’s last known address in Green Isle.

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