VANCE Boetler, the suspected of shooter of Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband, has been arrested after the state’s largest-ever manhunt.
After two days of intense searching where the net slowly closed in on Boetler, he was eventually found hiding in the woods and taken into custody on Sunday evening.
The public had been warned not to approach the 57-year-old, and he was armed when they arrested him in a rural area in Sibley County, southwest of Minneapolis.
A massive manhunt was launched on Saturday after Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot dead at their home in what officials called a “politically-motivated assassination”.
Cops said the same gunman had earlier shot and wounded Democrat senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their home nine miles away earlier on Saturday morning.
The gunman reportedly disguised himself as a police office to trick his victims.
Until his arrest, Boetler was last seen on Saturday morning in the Twin Cities area wearing a light colored cowboy hat, light pants and a dark long sleeve shirt.
Police quickly located a vehicle of interest and the cowboy hat they believe Boelter was wearing when he was last seen in the Twin Cities area.
Fliers for No Kings – a group against President Trump’s perceived overreach of power – were found in suspect’s car.
The pieces of evidence were found on Highway 25 in Sibley County roughly halfway between Green Isle, where Boelter has a property, and Belle Plaine.
Boetler faces two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder.
Hoffman and his wife were severely after being shot multiple times and had to undergo emergency surgery.
After they got out of the operation room, governor Tim Walz said he was “cautiously optimistic they will survive this assassination attempt”.
Boetler was previously an appointee of Walz, who publicly confirmed the “unspeakable tragedy” of the deaths his “good friend and colleague” Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark – who both died at the scene.
He said on Saturday: “Our state lost a great leader and I lost the dearest of friends.”
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