Chilling details emerge in Minnesota shootings as Vance Boelter faces federal charges: 'Stuff of nightmares'

[Ping Tung]

The man suspected of shooting and killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband as well as shooting and wounding a second lawmaker and his wife "stalked his victims like prey" and "shot them in cold blood," acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joseph Thompson said.

"His crimes are the stuff of nightmares," Thompson said at a news conference as he outlined the "chilling" details.

The target list recovered from the suspect's car outside the Hortmans' house had a list of dozens of Minnesota Democrats, including Hoffman, Hortman, Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter


https://abcnews.go.com/US/minnesota-lawmakers-shooting-suspect-vance-boelter-due-court/story?id=122882740

The fascists are calling him a "loyal Democrat" who wanted to disrupt the Birthday Parade.

[Ocelot II]

1. The bastard even shot the Hortmans' dog.

[Klarkashton]

2. Prime candidate for a trump pardon.

[Turbineguy]

3. Federal Charges?

I smell a trump pardon in the offing.

[Ping Tung]

4. Hell, Donnie would give John Wilkes Booth a posthumous Medal of Honor if he could.

[Ocelot II]

6. Discussed at great length in other threads. It won't happen, and here's why:

The states and the federal government are separate sovereigns. The feds can't and won't take the case away from the state; instead, the prosecutions will continue on those two separate tracks. Minnesota will prosecute him for murder and attempted murder and whatever other charges are appropriate; in the meantime the feds have apparently found a basis in the evidence uncovered so far to confer federal jurisdiction - apparently based on the use of firearms to commit another federal crime, maybe something involving interstate travel. Whatever that is, the two prosecutions are independent. Double jeopardy won't attach because of the dual sovereignty principle, meaning that federal murder and state murder are considered separate offenses and he can be prosecuted for both.

The state charges would appear to be a slam dunk; Boelter is virtually certain to be convicted if he doesn't plead guilty first. The sentence is likely to be life without parole since MN doesn't have the death penalty. He cannot be pardoned on those state charges. The fed is seeking the death penalty, for which Trump has a huge hard-on. Since Trump's pardons are based on bribery and Boelter doesn't seem to be in any position to offer a bribe, a pardon is unlikely, even if it would trigger the libs. Trump doesn't care about that; he just wants to be able to grift off the pardon power. A pardon or a commutation would save Boelter from the death penalty and that's it. Given the evidence so far I expect what will happen is that Boelter will plead guilty to everything to avoid the death penalty and accept LWOP, and that will be the end of it.

[suegeo]

5. Jesus. He wore a somewhat realistic mask

See the picture accompanying the article.

The GOP-voting killer wore a latex mask when he knocked on the Hoffmans' door.

After the republican shooter shot the first couple, the Republican/fascist killer went to a spot near to another law maker's residence. There, another (real) cop pulled up to the republican killer and tried to talk to him. But the murderous republican killer did not respond.

The republican killer visited another elected officials' residence, but that person was on vacation.

The republican with murderous intent took somebody hostage and drove them to a bank where the hostage took out money.

There are more details in this piece than I've seen before.

[Ping Tung]

7. Thanks for the additional info.

[tanyev]

8. Sounds like he spent some time researching the locations on his list, too.

Maybe that’s what he was really doing when he stayed in the house with the roommates.

[Johonny]

9. Fear MAGA, it is a death cult