Vance Luther Boelter, the man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, as he was arrested late Sunday.
AP
BELLE PLAINE, Minn. — The man accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another went to the homes of two other lawmakers to carry out more carnage on the night of the shootings, a federal prosecutor said.
But one of the other lawmakers was not home and the suspect left the other house after police arrived, said acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson.
Vance Boelter surrendered to police Sunday after they found him in the woods near his home following a massive search that began early Saturday near Minneapolis.
“Boelter planned his attack carefully” by researching his intended victims and their families and conducting surveillance of their homes and taking notes, Thompson said.
“This was a targeted attack against individuals who answered the call to public service,” said Alvin Winston, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Minneapolis field office. The resulting search, he said, was the largest search in the history of the state.
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