Police in Minnesota have not yet been able to find Vance Boelter, the man identified as the suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers on Saturday, one of them fatally.
However, Boelter’s wife was detained in a Saturday traffic stop, KSTP in Minnesota reported.
Per the report, “a traffic stop was done between 10 and 11 a.m. A witness says about a dozen law enforcement squads converged on the vehicle and remained on the scene for two to three hours.”
The wife of a man suspected of killing a Democratic lawmaker and her husband was detained in a traffic stop after police discovered a weapon, ammunition, cash, and passports in the trunk of her car.https://t.co/G6mG7NOh3E
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Not much else was reported about the stop, and it’s not clear if anyone has been arrested in connection with it.
Per The Daily Beast, Boelter’s residence has also been raided. It’s not known if he and his wife are still living together. One man surfaced on Saturday who described himself as Boelter’s roommate.
“Vance Boelter was at a Minneapolis home on Saturday morning where he rented a room part-time, and texted his roommates, I made some bad choices, I may be dead soon,” Fox 9 in Minnesota reported Sunday.
The two shootings took place in the suburbs of Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, Bring Me the News reported that items believed to belong to Boelter were found in Sibley County, Minnesota, in the Southern part of the state, including a vehicle and a cowboy hat.
I got mad and wrote a column: A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation https://t.co/FdyNgZAPOR
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The Minnesota Reformer looked at how the early news of the shooting led to widespread misinformation about what had happened, including accusations that Gov. Tim Walz had been behind the shootings. Or that Boelter being appointed to a nonpartisan board by Walz meant that Boelter was a political ally of Walz or a man of the left. Even Elon Musk tied the shooting to violence by “the left.”
“Like many states, but even more so here, Minnesota is home to hundreds of nonpartisan and bipartisan boards and commissions, which are composed of thousands of people who typically win the appointment by simply volunteering,” the Reformer said. “There are currently 342 open positions on Minnesota boards and commissions. Boelter was appointed to the Workforce Development Council by Walz’s predecessor, Gov. Mark Dayton, and reappointed by Walz.”
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