Suspect in Shootings of Minnesota Lawmakers Is Apprehended

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(Bloomberg) -- The man suspected of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota has been taken into custody, the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office said.
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Vance L. Boelter, 57, was arrested Sunday evening after a manhunt that stretched more than a day, keeping the entire region on edge. The FBI had been offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to Boelter's arrest.
The suspect crawled to officers after they located him in the woods near his home in Sibley County, the Associated Press reported. Authorities had earlier located a vehicle Boelter was using abandoned in the rural area, AP said.
Melissa Hortman, the Democratic leader in the state House, and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot Saturday at their house in Brooklyn Park, a suburb north of Minneapolis. John Hoffman, a Democratic Minnesota state senator, and his wife, Yvette, were wounded in a separate shooting at their home that was also linked to the suspect.
The shootings sparked fear on a day when protesters filled streets in hundreds of cities across the US to oppose President Donald Trump's administration, as he held a military parade in Washington.
In a message published by US Senator Amy Klobuchar, Yvette Hoffman said she had been shot eight times and that her husband, John, took nine bullet hits.
'We are both incredibly lucky to be alive,' Yvette Hoffman wrote. 'There is never a place for this kind of political hate.'
Speculation has focused on a purported hit list in a car left at the crime scene that included several Minnesota politicians and abortion providers in the state, according to a government document seen by Bloomberg News.
'This is not a document that would be like a traditional manifesto that's a treatise on all kinds of ideology and writings,' said Drew Evans, superintendent of the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Rather, it's 'a notebook with a lot of lawmakers and others that are listed,' along with 'other thoughts.'
Drew cautioned against speculating about the suspect's motives and declined to elaborate on the list in the notebook.
The Minnesota carnage renewed a focus on political violence that both political parties have deplored for years. Threats against national lawmakers in Washington increased to 9,000 last year from 1,700 in 2016, Klobuchar said.
--With assistance from Miranda Davis.
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