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Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot to death at their home early Saturday morning by a man disguised as police, officials said.
The Minnesota attacks rippled across the country as frightened political leaders worried that America’s divides could leave them dead.
Boelter allegedly had firearms and a list of 45 elected officials in notebooks in his car, law enforcement said.
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A lifelong friend of the alleged Minnesota gunman says Vance Boelter had been struggling to find work and was wrestling with a “darkness that was inside of him” at the time of the shootings.
In the wake of the political violence in Minnesota over the weekend, congressional lawmakers are coalescing around two messages: Elected officials need to turn down the rhetoric, and they need more money to tighten security.
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and others posted unfounded claims on social media about the political affiliation of the gunman arrested in the June 14 fatal shootings of a Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and the wounding of another Democratic state lawmaker and his wife.
From a legislator in downtown Minneapolis to a veteran Ohio congresswoman, many lawmakers included in the suspected Minnesota gunman’s writings and list of targets are vowing not to bow down.
President Donald Trump unexpectedly departed the Group of Seven summit yesterday and said he was heading back to Washington to deal with conflicts in the Middle East.