Minnesota assassination suspect's ‘manifesto' names dozens of lawmakers, abortion providers
The 'manifesto' of alleged Minnesota political assassin Vance Boelter lists a chilling who's who of Minnesota lawmakers and abortion providers he may have had in his crosshairs.
Everyone from Sen. Amy Klobuchar to Rep. Ilhan Omar and Gov. Tim Walz were named in the document, which was discovered piecemeal in several locations, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
5 Security footage captured the suspect wearing a creepy Halloween mask before ambushing Minnesota lawmakers in their homes.
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5 Prominent Minnesota lawmakers such as Sen. Amy Klobuchar were listed in the suspect Vance Boelter's piecemeal 'manifesto.'
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Authorities said the document also included North Star State pols such as Sen. Tina Smith and Rep. Kelly Morrison.
Officials said the disturbing catalog of the state's political figures is giving investigators fresh insights into Boelter's troubled mind and raising the alarm that anyone named on the list could have found themselves at the end of his gun barrel.
Sources told the Star Tribune that Klobuchar was listed, as well as members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and an unknown number of abortion providers in the state. Smith, Morrison and Omar all confirmed they were among the names in the document.
5 Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith said it is 'deeply concerning' that she was on the suspect's potential hit list.
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Speaking on NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday, host Kristen Welker asked Klobuchar if she was on the list, to which she replied, 'I just know that they have added security without my request. So I think they're concerned about everyone.'
The senior senator called Boelter — for whom a large-scale manhunt is under way — a 'murderous, murderous man' whose bloodlust is unlikely to be confined to those listed.
Smith said in a Sunday interview with CNN's Manu Raju that learning she was potentially in Boelter's crosshairs was 'deeply concerning.' She expressed gratitude for the stepped-up security presence being extended by local police to her and her family 'because we still don't know where this assassin is.'
5 Far-left 'Squad' member and Minn. Rep. Ilhan Omar was among the lawmakers named in the manifesto, too.
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told the outlet he was included in Boelter's missive, too.
Authorities said the list contained the names of as many as 70 people, including Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and numerous members of the state's congressional delegation.
It was not immediately known whether former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and state Sen. John Hoffman — who were targeted in separate shootings early Saturday along with their spouses — were among those named on the list.
5 Authorities are still looking for Vance Boelter and have narrowed their search to rural Sibley County, around 50 miles southwest of Minneapolis, after discovering his cowboy hat and a vehicle there believed linked to him.
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Boelter is wanted for allegedly executing Hortman and her husband, Mark, and badly wounding Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in their respective homes.
Authorities have described the attacks an act of 'targeted political violence,' though the suspect's motives are yet fully known.
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