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Suspected Minnesota Lawmaker Assassin Captured | Crime Alert 6AM 06.16.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert im Nancy Grace Breaking Crime News now joining
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  Speaker 1: us a co partner standing by with the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Vance Boler, the individual suspected of shooting two Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: legislators and their spouses in a series of politically charged
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  Speaker 2: attacks early Saturday morning, is now in police custody, according
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  Speaker 2: to a press release. On Sunday evening, Boltler, fifty seven,
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  Speaker 2: was apprehended close to his residence in green Isle, located
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  Speaker 2: in Sibley County, just before ten pm. The Ramsey County
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office shared an image on social media that seems
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  Speaker 2: to depict Botler being arrested. Authorities reportedly discovered a vehicle
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  Speaker 2: and a hat belonging to the suspect in the shooting
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  Speaker 2: of the state lawmakers, State Representative Melissa Hortman and her
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  Speaker 2: husband Mark, and State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday, tactical units were deployed to a remote area
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  Speaker 2: of Minnesota after officers located what they believed to be
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  Speaker 2: a black Buick tied to Vance Boler, fifty seven, who
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  Speaker 2: is accused of killing that Democratic state legislator and attempting
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  Speaker 2: to murder another. As investigators broadened their search for Botler
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  Speaker 2: throughout the state. They identified the car in Sibley County,
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  Speaker 2: along with that hat he had left behind. Approximately an
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  Speaker 2: hour's dry from the scene of Saturday's violence, law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: cladden tactical gear raced down a rural highway while emergency
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  Speaker 2: alerts on cell phones urged local residents to secure their
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  Speaker 2: homes and vehicles. By Sunday afternoon, a checkpoint was established
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  Speaker 2: near the suspect's residence in green Isle, Minnesota, with police
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  Speaker 2: vehicles gathered in the vicinity and the FBI present. A
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  Speaker 2: State patrol helicopter circled overhead as heavily armed officers conducted
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  Speaker 2: door to door searches, combing through barnes, silos and wooded areas.
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  Speaker 2: Police say they received a tip that Boler was in
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  Speaker 2: the area. That's when swat Teames soon located him. Officials
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  Speaker 2: had requested the assistance from the public, offering a reward
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  Speaker 2: of fifty thousand dollars for any information leading to his capture.
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  Speaker 2: On Saturday morning, Butler's wife was apprehended by police about
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  Speaker 2: seventy miles from the location of the shooting. According to
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff Kyle Burton, she and other family members had cooperated
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  Speaker 2: with investigators and were not in custody as of Sunday evening,
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  Speaker 2: stated Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators revealed that during the attack, the suspect impersonated a
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  Speaker 2: police officer wearing a ballistic vest, gloves, and a mask
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  Speaker 2: to conceal his identity while shooting representative Melissa Hortman and
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  Speaker 2: her husband Mark. Police nearly captured Boler at the time,
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  Speaker 2: but he fled on foot after a brief exchange of
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  Speaker 2: gunfire with officers and a separate vehicle associated with the
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  Speaker 2: suspect that was abandoned at the shooting site, authorities discovered
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  Speaker 2: a notebook containing a list of lawmakers and various notes,
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  Speaker 2: as detailed by mister Evans during a press briefing.
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  Speaker 3: In terms of what's been referred to manifesto, I want
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  Speaker 3: to clarify for everybody and just for this this is
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  Speaker 3: not a document, because I think it's important for the
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  Speaker 3: public to understand that would be like a traditional manifesto
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  Speaker 3: that's a treatise on all kinds of ideology and writings.
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  Speaker 3: This is a notebook with a lot of that's been
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  Speaker 3: reported of lawmakers and others that are listed in here,
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  Speaker 3: and then much more other thoughts that are throughout this
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  Speaker 3: as opposed to a succinct document that's providing long and
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  Speaker 3: it's in mixed in with other documents. So that's where
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  Speaker 3: this is coming from.
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  Speaker 2: More on this breaking story. After this, former House speaker
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  Speaker 2: Melissa Hartman and her husband Mark tragically lost their lives
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  Speaker 2: in their Brooklyn Park home early Saturday morning. Meanwhile, Senator
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  Speaker 2: John Hoffman and his wife Events stained serious injuries at
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  Speaker 2: their home in Champlain, located about nine miles away. Both
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  Speaker 2: were shot at least eight times and have undergone multiple surgeries.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities say fifty nine year old Advance Boulder, the prime suspect,
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  Speaker 2: wore a mask and impersonated a police officer, even modifying
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  Speaker 2: a vehicle to resemble a police car. Law enforcement conducted
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  Speaker 2: searches of the vehicle on a secluded road as the
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  Speaker 2: state grappled with the shocking nature of this politically motivated crime.
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  Speaker 2: The search was concentrated in a rural Sibley County area
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  Speaker 2: about fifty miles southwest of Minneapolis, where Bolter lived with
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  Speaker 2: his wife and five children. Residents received an emergency alert
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  Speaker 2: regarding the vehicle and advising them to secure and lock
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  Speaker 2: their homes and cars. Authorities also recovered a list of
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  Speaker 2: around seventy names from ridings found in that fake police
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  Speaker 2: vehicle at the crime scene. This list included notable state
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  Speaker 2: and federal lawmakers, community the leaders, abortion rights advocates, and
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  Speaker 2: details regarding health care facilities. Several ak style firearms were
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  Speaker 2: confiscated from the suspects vehicle. Boler is a former political
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  Speaker 2: appointee who served on the same state Workforce Development Board
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  Speaker 2: as Hoffman, although it remains unclear how well they knew
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  Speaker 2: each other. At around six am on Saturday, Bolter sent
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  Speaker 2: text to friends expressing regrets for his actions, without specifically
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  Speaker 2: saying what he had done. He said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be gone for a while. Here's one of those friends
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  Speaker 2: speaking to CBS News.
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  Speaker 3: He just.
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  Speaker 4: Felt he made he made some choices, and you know
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  Speaker 4: he's he was planning some things that we didn't have
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  Speaker 4: all that we didn't all about them, is what he said,
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  Speaker 4: and then that he might be dead soon in law
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  Speaker 4: for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Police responded to gunfire reports at the Hoffsman's home just
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  Speaker 2: after two am Saturday, discovering the couple with multiple gunshot wounds.
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  Speaker 2: Local police from Brooklyn Park who were on the scene,
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  Speaker 2: decided to check on Hortman's nearby home, as stated by
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  Speaker 2: police Chief Mark Browley. Upon arriving, officers encountered what appeared
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  Speaker 2: to be a police vehicle and a man dressed as
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  Speaker 2: an officer exiting the house. When confronted, he fired at
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  Speaker 2: the officers, who returned fire. The suspect then retreated into
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  Speaker 2: the home and escaped on foot, leaving behind the vehicle
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  Speaker 2: designed to mimic a police car, where authorities later found
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  Speaker 2: those ridings. Stay with Crime Alert hourly update as we
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  Speaker 2: continue to follow this developing story.
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