Suspect in Minnesota DFL lawmaker shootings identified
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Police are hunting Vance Boelter after he allegedly shot and killed a top lawmaker and injured a senator in Minnesota.
Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill were at each other‘s throats. By Saturday, they were joining to decry political violence and seek more security. The middle-of-the-night killing in Minnesota of a top Democratic state lawmaker and the shooting of a colleague—allegedly by a suspect posing as a police officer who had a list of other elected officials—jolted Capitol Hill,
According to the website for his company Praetorian Guard Security Services, Boelter is listed as director of security patrols.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect in the shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers.