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June 16, 2025 at 07:08 PM
2️⃣ *US law enforcement* officials in *Minnesota* caught the *suspected killer* of a *Democratic state lawmaker* and her husband, authorities said, ending a *two-day manhunt.*
🇺🇸 🚨 The suspect, *57-year-old Vance Boelter,* allegedly *disguised himself* as a *police officer*, then shot and *killed Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman* and her *husband Mark* at their home early on Saturday.
*Boelter* was captured in *Sibley County,* a rural area about an hour *southwest* of the *Minneapolis suburbs* where the murders had occurred, police and state officials said.
*Police described* the search as the *_"largest manhunt in (the state's) history",_* with 20 SWAT teams and *several agencies* working to find him.
*Jeremy Geiger,* assistant chief of the *Minnesota State Patrol,* told reporters that Boelter had been *_"taken into custody without the use of force."_*