Minesota’s interim federal prosecutor Joe Thompson said at a press conference that Research is still ongoing And he refused to confirm whether he would ask for the death penalty against the aggressor, identified as Vance Luther Boelter, director of a 57 -year -old security and preacher company.
Boelter was apprehended near your residence In the early hours of this Monday, After two days of an intense search operation and capture.
The attacks took place in the early hours of Saturday. The defendant It was passed through a police officer and wounded the state -owned Democratic Senator John Hoffman and his wife in his residence, and then shot dead president of the Minesota House of Representatives (USA), also the Democrat Melissa Hortman, and her husband, in the home of both.
According to Thompson, Boelter He went to the houses of two other legislatorsthat They were not in their homes then.
The interim federal prosecutor indicated that the suspect planned the attacks exhaustively, investigated his victims and “He watched his homes”. During the registration to their car, the researchers found surveillance notebooks with a list of more than 45 elected officials.
Thompson echoed the words of the state governor, Democrat Tim Walz, who described The incident as an attack for political reasons.
“It was a political murder, A word that we do not use very often in the United States“, Said the interim federal prosecutor, who pointed out that this is another example of the growing wave of violent extremism in the country.
Among the new details revealed by the authorities could be known that after shooting the two legislators and their partners, Boelter exchanged shots with the police And he fled in a car that he bought in cash and then left about four kilometers from his house in the town of Green isle, in Minesota.
“Dad went to war last night. I don’t want to say more because I don’t want to involve anyone“Boelter wrote to his wife hours after the shooting, according to the accusation documents.” There are no words to explain how much this situation I feel, “he wrote in another message.
The attacks have been widely rejected by personalities from the entire American political spectrum.
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