Wendy Thomas was talking with his father when he saw someone in a field in Green isle, Minnesota, Sunday night.
Thomas observed how the person reached a sewer and put on squatting, told him Minneapolis ABC KSTP Affiliate.
“I thought: ‘Dad, that’s someone,” he told The Outlet. “He said: ‘Hang and call someone.'”
Moments later, Thomas was marking a police member, he said, and telling them about the man he had seen for the sewer. What followed was the arrest of the alleged gunman of Minnesota, Vance Boelter, whom the local, state and federal police had been trying to locate for approximately 43 hours.
Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested near his farm in Green isle, Minnesota.
Ramsey County Sheriff Office
Boelter is accused of killing the State Democratic representative of Minnesota Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and Hiren to the state -owned Democratic Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in “political murders,” said the US lawyer of the Minnesota Joseph District Joseph Thompson.
Boelter supposedly appeared at its doors in the middle of the night on Saturday morning that passes through a police officer and with a realistic -looking mask, authorities said, and pointed out that two other legislators were saved the night of the shootings.
The representative of the State of Minnesota, Melissa Hortman and the senator of the state of Minnesota, John Hoffman, are shown in these photos of files without date.
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Boelter supposedly surveyed the houses of his victims and took notes, said Thompson. In a search for a house in northern Minneapolis linked to Boelter, the authorities confiscated a list of public officials who had a notation under the reading of the name of Melissa Hortman, “married Mark 2 children 11th term,” according to the affidavit. Another notebook included an additional notation next to the reading of the name of Melissa Hortman, “Big House Off Golf Course 2 ways to see from one place,” said the affidavit.
He “stalked his victims as a prey” and “shot them in cold blood,” said Thompson.
Boelter faces federal charges that include charges of harassment and firearms and state charges, including first degree murder, authorities said. He made a brief appearance in a federal court on Monday.
Vance Boelter, 57, the suspect accused of killing a legislator from Minnesota and shooting another, sits in a federal court while facing positions of murder in the deaths of shooting of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, June 16, 2025 in this sketch of the court.
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A reason remains under investigation. But the senator of the state of Minnesota, Scott Dribble, who worked with Hortman, told ABC News on Monday that he was “very concerned about the nature of the rhetoric that is happening with politics, especially among right -wing extremists.”
Dribble pointed out what he saw as a change in recent years so that “those at the highest levels get involved in the rhetoric of dehumanization, politicize government instruments, politicize our military and really ask for a violent response instead of really having vigorous political debates.”
The authorities gather in a baseball park in Green isle, Minnesota, on June 15, 2025, while looking for Vance Luther Boelter, 57, the suspect of the fatal shooting of the representative of the state of Minnesota, Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.
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Lieutenant governor of Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan, said that “each elected official of each line and party has to reject the temperature.” Elected representatives and government employees should be showing their “humanity” in difficult times and arriving through the hall, Flanagan told ABC News on Monday.
“Our community, our families, you know, taking care of each other, taking a step forward to each other. And that must continue to be the message during this time of divisive rhetoric,” he said.
In this January 3, 2023, archive photo, speaker of the Melissa Hortman House goes to the floor of the house in St. Paul, Minnesota | John Hoffman is a show during a floor session, on January 4, 2023.
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The feeling was resonated by the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz.
“The way our nation progresses is not through hatred. It is not through violence,” Walz said in a statement on Monday. “It is through humility, grace and compassion.”
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump refused to call Walz, who ran with Kamala Harris last November to offer condolences.
“I don’t want to call it,” Trump said. “I think the governor of Minnesota is so off. I am not calling it. Why would I call it? I could call and say: ‘Hello, how are you?’ Uh, the guy has no idea.
Pierre Thomas, Katherine Faulders, Mike Levine, Alexander Mallin and Brittany Shepherd contributed to this report.
