Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman had tearfully joined Republicans to chop healthcare for grownup unlawful aliens simply days earlier than being assassinated by a former appointee of Democrat Governor Tim Walz, who had “No Kings” flyers in his car.
Throughout Monday’s Minnesota Particular Session, Rep. Hortman helped lower entry to MinnesotaCare advantages for undocumented immigrants over the age of 18. She was the one Democrat to vote in favor of the invoice.
“I do know that folks shall be harm by that vote and I’m – we labored very arduous to try to get a funds deal that wouldn’t embody that provision,” the now-deceased consultant mentioned by way of tears after the vote. “I did what leaders do… I stepped up and acquired the job achieved for the individuals of Minnesota.”
Simply earlier than Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman was shot and killed by a suspect with “No Kings” flyers of their automotive, she broke down in tears on digicam after voting with Republicans to limit the well being care entry of grownup unlawful aliens.
Hortman was the one Democrat to vote in… pic.twitter.com/PynKuyeTML
— AF Publish (@AFpost) June 14, 2025
Gov. Walz introduced Saturday morning that state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband didn’t survive a 2 a.m. assault at their residence on Saturday by a suspect sporting what gave the impression to be a police uniform. The suspect additionally went to the home of State Sen. John Hoffman, capturing him and his spouse.
Hoffman and his spouse are alive and out of surgical procedure after each had been injured within the capturing.
The suspect within the capturing, Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve on the Governor’s Workforce Growth Board, but additionally leads a world safety agency.
Boelter’s spouse additionally seems to have interned for Gov. Walz immediately in 2010; nevertheless, The Gateway Pundit has not been in a position to independently verify this relationship.
Seems like Vance Luther Boelter’s spouse was additionally an intern for Walz pic.twitter.com/0JUBVqW1Gi
— Aggressive Angle (@lowsloperoof) June 14, 2025
It has been reported that the suspect was dressed up as a police officer when he went to the lawmaker’s houses and shot the 2 {couples}. Boelter is the Director of Safety Patrols at Praetoria Safety, a safety agency within the state. The agency’s web site options employees wearing uniforms that carefully resemble these of regulation enforcement.
#BREAKING: Dr. Vance Boelter, the Tim Walz appointee who ALLEGEDLY kiIIed Rep. Melissa Hortman, is the Director of Safety Patrols at a safety agency in MN
This explains how he would have entry to a “regulation enforcement-like” car and uniform, as police have reported.
He… pic.twitter.com/oPEeElIFn8
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 14, 2025
A biography of Boelter on the Praetoria website states:
Dr. Vance Boelter has been concerned with safety conditions in Japanese Europe, Africa, North America and the Center East, together with the West Financial institution, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. He brings an awesome safety side cast by each many on the bottom experiences mixed with coaching by each personal safety companies and by individuals within the U.S. Army. He has labored for the biggest U.S. oil refining firm, the world’s largest meals firm based mostly in Switzerland and the world’s largest comfort retailer based mostly in Japan. Vance has centered all this expertise to verify Praetorian Guard Safety Providers covers the wants it’s important to maintain your loved ones and property secure.
Boelter’s LinkedIn additionally lists him because the CEO of Pink Lion Group.
The police arrived at Hortman’s residence to examine on them after the primary capturing at Hoffman’s residence and encountered the suspect.
“At which era, Brooklyn Park law enforcement officials encountered a person who instantly fired at them, and so they exchanged gunfire and the person was in a position to escape throughout that change of gunfire,” Minnesota Bureau of Legal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans mentioned at a press convention Saturday.
The shooter’s automotive, which was left on the scene, was affected by fliers printed with “No Kings,” a direct nod to the unhinged protests deliberate in opposition to President Donald Trump’s administration. A manifesto was additionally positioned, containing a listing of different politicians.
Given the focused shootings of state lawmakers in a single day, we’re asking the general public to not attend at present’s deliberate demonstrations throughout Minnesota out of an abundance of warning. pic.twitter.com/7hFccnrQUT
— MN State Patrol (@MnDPS_MSP) June 14, 2025
A manhunt for Boelter is presently underway.
The No Kings protests within the state have been cancelled.
The Democrat governor referred to as the assassinations and makes an attempt acts of “focused political violence.”
