We don’t know a little more about Vance Boelter’s murderous trip. On the night of June 14, he went successively to the houses of four Democratic political leaders in the suburbs of Minneapolis, “with the intention of killing them,” federal prosecutor Joe Thompson revealed on Monday. Of the four attacks, two failed: one of the objectives was absent, the other was protected by the presence of a police car.
Unfortunately, Melissa Hortman, a figure of the Democratic Party and former president of the Chamber of Representatives of Minnesota, was killed at home, just like her husband Mark Hortman. The suspect, who had disguised himself as a police officer to deceive his victims, is also accused of having seriously injured the Democratic Senator John Hoffman and his wife. The latter’s life is no longer in danger.
An attempt at premeditated political murder
“It was a political murder, a word that we do not use very often …