Federal prosecutors on Monday charged the man accused of assassinating a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband, and shooting another lawmaker and his wife, with six federal counts, including stalking, murder and firearms offenses.
Vance Luther Boelter, 57, is facing both state and federal charges in the assassination of Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the shooting of Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in a separate attack.
The details of the crime “are truly chilling, it is no exaggeration to say that his crimes are the stuff of nightmares,” Joe Thompson, the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota, said Monday.
Thompson said “it is too early to tell” whether the Justice Department will seek the death penalty in Boelter’s case, but it “is one of the options for several of the charges.
Thompson said that early Saturday morning, Boelter went to the homes of four Minnesota state lawmakers “with the intent to kill them.”
