Minnesota officials label murder ‘political’ as questions remain about suspect’s politics

State governor Tim Walz condemned the assassination of former Speaker of Mennisota Melissa Hortmann and her husband as politically driven, but questions about the political affiliation of the suspect remain.

Minnesota’s Democratic Governor immediately denounced what he said, “It seems that he is the assassination of political motives,” after the attacks on Saturday morning.

Vans Luther Powlter, 57, is Murder Hortmann and her husband, Mark, and shooting Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Evit, in separate incidents on Saturday morning.

Legionships from Minnesota and through the United States have since joined Walza in condemning violent attacks. The politicians and authorities were clear that the Saturday’s attack had political motives, but they were less clear about the political preferences of the suspect.

The suspect on the legislator at Minnesota had a weapons cache, vehicle beating list, and court documents

American lawyer Joseph E said. Thompson on Monday that the primary motivation of Plitre It was “going out and killing people”, as the authorities announced the arrest of the suspect on Monday after a two -day chase.

“Now, they were all elected officials,” Tomson said. “They were all democrats. Beyond that, I think it could be anyone who reviewed these materials to know and say what he was stimulating in terms of ideology or specific issues.”

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Potter is facing now Federal accusations After the officials of Sibli Province arrested him on Sunday evening. He is accused of two accusations of chasing, two accusations of death and two accusations of crimes related to firearms. Boelter also faces second -degree murder provided in Hennepin Province.

Melissa Hortmann, former head of the Minnesota home, Melissa Hortmann, launched on Saturday. (Glen Stop via Getti)

Two thousand m. Winston, Undersecretary of the FBI, during a press conference on Monday: “Political violence has no place in this country.”

While Thompson said it was too early to define specific political motives, he said: “This was a political assassination.”

Tomson added, in light of two attempts to assassinate President Donald Trump last year, the attack on the wife of the former House of Representatives, R.

The records reveal a Politer recorder to vote as a Republican while living in Oklahoma in 2004 before moving to Minnesota, where voters do not include party affiliation.

Brooklyn Police chief Park Mark Broalli speaks at a press conference held at the Minnesota Emergency Management Center after the arrest of Vans Powlet. (Christopher Mark Join/Anadolu)

Boelter was previously appointed to the Minnesota Manpower Development Council by governors, according to Fox 9.

According to the suspect was appointed by Mark Dayton’s governor, a democratic, in 2016, he was re -was reassured by Walz in 2019 as a representative of the private sector in the council. He previously worked on the same painting as Hoffman before the end of his term in 2023.

Friends and former colleagues described an interview with the Associated Press Piglter as a religious Christian who attended a predecessor and attended Trump’s gatherings.

“He was to the right of politics but unprecedented, what I saw, just strong beliefs,” said Paul Schroeder, who was just strong beliefs, “he added.

Fox News found no results of individual contributions to federal registered political committees.

According to the Boelter’s LinkedIn page, it has a large -scale security background, including the CEO of the Red Lion group based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was also listed as director of the Guard Security Services, a security company provided by his wife to establish it, according to the company’s website.

Several firearms similar to the AK-47 of the Boelter vehicle were recovered during the investigation, along with a pile of “No Kings” publications, reflecting Administrative protests to combat Trump It erupted throughout the country this weekend.

Walz had planned to speak at the “La Kings” gathering in Saint -Paul on Saturday before the assassination.

Federal prosecutors have released photos that they said were from Minnesota’s portable books to shoot at Vans Powlet suspected in a criminal complaint, June 16, 2025. (Ministry of Justice)

The authorities also found a statement that included the names and addresses of other public officials. About 70 names were found in the statement, according to law enforcement officials who spoke to the Associated Press, provided that his identity was not disclosed. Officials said the list also included the names of politicians who support abortion, abortion rights advocates and information about healthcare facilities.

Tomson said: “There were some supporters of abortion rights, I think, on the list.

Potler colleague in the room told the New York Post that he had conservative political opinions, but he rarely talked about politics and was not publicly political.

“He was a supporter of Trump,” said David Carlson. “He did not like abortion.”

Carlson told the New York Times that Potter was facing the challenges of financial and mental health, and that Bolter “gave up life for some reason.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, Carlson woke up on Saturday to a text message from Poelter that he “will disappear for a while” and “may be dead soon.”

“I thought he would harm the soul,” Carlson said. “I didn’t think he would do anything like this.”

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Walzel continued to condemn violence during a press conference on Monday.

“A moment in this country where we saw violence explodes. This cannot be the rule. It cannot be the way we deal with our political differences.”

Walz added in a statement that “we cannot be anesthetic to this violence, adding that we are” a nation divided deeply. “

The Walz office and US Prosecutor’s Office for the Minnesota Province did not immediately respond to the Fox News.

This report contributed to this report from Fox News Digiter Stephen Soras, Michael Durgan, Julia Bonavita, Odre Konklin, Peter Dabosa and Sarah Rumf White.