Officers found notebooks referencing at least 45 state and federal elected officials in the car of suspected Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter, according to Joseph Thompson, the acting US attorney for the District of Minnesota.
The names included “dozens and dozens” of Democratic lawmakers, Thompson said during a Monday press briefing. “There were some abortion rights supporters, I believe, on the list,” he added.
Several prominent Minnesota politicians, including Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.), as well as Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison confirmed to The New York Times that they had been mentioned in the writings. According to The Times and Axios, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Kelly Morrison (D-Minn.) and Angie Craig (D-Minn.) were among the Minnesota politicians who were also listed, while other Democrats, including Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), and Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) were referenced as well.
As Sen. Smith told The Times, abortion providers in Minnesota were included in the writings, too.
Both CNN and The New York Times have described the documents as an apparent list of potential targets, citing information from law enforcement officials. As Thanedar told The Detroit News, the FBI has signaled that some of the names may have been mentioned in notes that they didn’t think were a “hit list but a rambling of a conspiracy,” he said.
