该男子涉嫌枪杀一名明尼苏达州议员和她的丈夫，以及枪杀打伤第二名议员和他的妻子明尼苏达州代理联邦检察官约瑟夫·汤普森说，“像对待猎物一样跟踪他的受害者”，并“冷血地枪杀了他们”。
“他的罪行是噩梦的素材，”汤普森在新闻发布会上说，他概述了“令人不寒而栗”的细节。
万斯·波尔特，57岁，被指控杀害民主党明尼苏达州众议员梅丽莎·霍特曼和她的丈夫马克汤普森说，在“政治暗杀”中，他打伤了民主党参议员约翰·霍夫曼和他的妻子伊维特。官员们说，博尔特据称在半夜出现在他们的门口，假装成一名警察，戴着一个看起来很逼真的面具，并指出另外两名议员在枪击事件当晚幸免于难。
官员说，博尔特在明尼苏达州绿岛的农场附近被捕，他面临包括跟踪和枪支指控在内的联邦指控和包括一级谋杀在内的州指控。
汤普森说，据称波尔特的车里有枪支和45名当选官员的名单。
汤普森说，据称他监视受害者的家并做笔记。根据宣誓书，在搜查与博尔特有关的明尼阿波利斯北部的一所房子时，当局查获了一份公职人员名单，上面有梅丽莎·霍特曼的名字，上面写着“已婚马克2子女第11任期”。宣誓书说，另一个笔记本在梅丽莎·霍特曼的名字旁边增加了一个符号，写着“高尔夫球场外的大房子，从一个地方看有两个方向”。
汤普森概述了波尔特据称在周六早些时候驱车前往的四处住宅。
汤普森说，据称，波尔特首先驾驶一辆黑色SUV前往霍夫曼在明尼苏达州尚普林的家，这辆SUV开着应急灯，牌照上写着“警察”。
汤普森说，霍夫曼“令人不寒而栗”的监控录像显示，嫌疑人穿着黑色战术背心、防弹衣和“超现实硅面具”。据称，波尔特手持一支手电筒和一支9毫米口径的贝雷塔手枪，敲着前门，反复喊道:“我们是警察，开门!”汤普森说。
汤普森说，当霍夫曼和他的妻子来到门口时，嫌疑人用手电筒照了照他们的脸，说房子里报告了枪击事件，并问这对夫妇是否有武器。
霍夫曼夫妇喊道:“你不是警察!”汤普森说，然后嫌疑人宣布“这是一次抢劫”，他强行进入家中。
汤普森说，当参议员霍夫曼试图将嫌疑人推出家门时，波尔特开枪打死了他和他的妻子。
汤普森说，霍夫曼的女儿拨打了911。
汤普森说，凌晨2点24分，波尔特据称开车去了一位州议员在枫林的家。汤普森说，这位议员不在家，因为她和她的家人正在度假，波尔特离开了现场。
汤普森说，据称波尔特随后开车去了一位州议员在新希望的家，并把车停在了街上。
汤普森说，凌晨2点36分，在得知霍夫曼家中发生枪击事件后，新希望警方派出一名警察前往新希望立法者的家。汤普森说，当警察到达时，她看到波尔特的车停在街区的尽头，她相信波尔特是被派往现场的警察。
汤普森说，这名警官把车停在波尔特旁边，摇下车窗，试图和他说话，但他没有回应，眼睛直直地看着前方。汤普森说，于是新希望警官开车去了州参议员的家，等待其他执法人员，而那个时候，波尔特已经离开了现场。
州参议员安·雷斯特称自己是幸免于难议员。
“我非常感激新希望警察局及其警官的英勇工作。他们的快速行动救了我的命，”她在周一的一份声明中说。“我还感谢州和地方执法部门在嫌犯夺走更多生命之前逮捕了他。”
Rest补充道，“我为失去Melissa Hortman和她的丈夫Mark感到悲伤，我为John和Yvette Hoffman的康复祈祷。”
在霍夫曼夫妇被枪杀后，警官们也主动去了他的议员同伴的家，明尼苏达州众议院前议长梅丽莎·霍特曼在附近的布鲁克林公园镇。
汤普森说，当两名布鲁克林公园的警察赶到时，他们看到波尔特的SUV停在车道上，应急灯闪烁着，波尔特站在房子前面离门几英尺的地方。
汤普森说，当波尔特看到警察时，据称他开始开枪并冲进房子，杀死了霍特曼和她的丈夫。
汤普森说，布鲁克林公园的警察在波尔特冲进房子时向他开枪，但波尔特逃进了房子，从后门逃走了。
明尼苏达州刑事逮捕局局长德鲁·埃文斯(Drew Evans)表示，与嫌疑人对峙的警察可能阻止了其他枪击事件。
据熟悉此事的执法部门消息人士透露，在霍特曼家外面从嫌疑人的汽车中找到的目标名单上有几十名明尼苏达州民主党人，包括霍夫曼、霍特曼、州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹、美国众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔和美国参议员蒂娜·史密斯。
当局说，枪击事件引发了为期两天的大规模搜捕，包括20支特警队、直升机和无人驾驶飞行器。
当局说，周日晚些时候，波尔特在一个农村地区被捕时携带武器，但他被拘留时没有发生任何事件。
被联邦拘留的波尔特周一在联邦法院短暂首次出庭，穿着两件套橙色囚服、橙色袜子和黑色幻灯片。波尔特说，他的银行账户里有大约2万到3万美元，并要求一名公共辩护人。他的初步和拘留听证会定于6月27日举行。
汤普森说，动机尚不清楚。
根据对一名未透露姓名的证人的采访，法庭文件显示，袭击发生后的早上7点，波尔特试图在明尼阿波利斯北部购买一辆电动自行车和一辆别克，据称他和证人一起开车去了一家银行，在那里提取了2200美元现金。
枪击发生几小时后，波尔特据称给他的家人发短信说，“爸爸昨晚去打仗了...我不想多说，因为我不想牵连任何人，”根据宣誓书。
据称，波尔特还给他的妻子发短信说，“言语无法表达我对这种情况有多抱歉...会有一些人带着枪到我家来，我不希望你们在我身边。”
证词说，在搜查波尔特妻子的汽车时，执法部门为波尔特的妻子和她的孩子找到了两支手枪、大约1万美元的现金和护照。
Chilling details emerge in Minnesota shootings as Vance Boelter faces federal charges: 'Stuff of nightmares'
The man suspected of shooting and killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband as well as shooting andwounding a second lawmaker and his wife"stalked his victims like prey" and "shot them in cold blood," acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joseph Thompson said.
"His crimes are the stuff of nightmares," Thompson said at a news conference as he outlined the "chilling" details.
Vance Boelter, 57, is accused ofkilling Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounding Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in "political assassinations," Thompson said. Boelter allegedly showed up to their doors in the middle of the night impersonating a police officer and wearing a realistic-looking mask, officials said, noting that two other lawmakers were spared the night of the shootings.
Boelter, who was arrested overnight near his farm in Green Isle, Minnesota, is facing federal charges including stalking and firearms charges and state charges including first-degree murder, officials said.
Boelter allegedly had firearms and a list of 45 elected officials in notebooks in his car, Thompson said.
He allegedly surveilled his victims' homes and took notes, Thompson said. In a search of a home in north Minneapolis tied to Boelter, authorities seized a list of public officials that had a notation under Melissa Hortman's name reading, "married Mark 2 children 11th term," according to the affidavit. Another notebook included an added notation next to Melissa Hortman's name reading, "Big house off golf course 2 ways in to watch from one spot," the affidavit said.
Thompson outlined the four homes that Boelter allegedly drove to early Saturday.
Boelter allegedly first drove to Hoffman's home in Champlin, Minnesota, in a black SUV with emergency lights turned on and a license plate that said "police," Thompson said.
Hoffman's "chilling" security camera footage showed the suspect in a black tactical vest, body armor and a "hyper-realistic silicon mask," Thompson said. Armed with a flashlight and a 9 mm Beretta handgun, Boelter allegedly knocked on the front door and repeatedly shouted, "This is the police, open the door!" Thompson said.
When Sen. Hoffman and his wife came to the door, the suspect shined the flashlight in their faces, said there was a shooting reported in the house and asked if the couple had weapons, Thompson said.
The Hoffmans shouted, "You're not a cop!" Thompson said, and then the suspect announced that "this is a robbery" and he forced his way into the home.
When Sen. Hoffman tried to push the suspect out of the house, Boelter shot him and his wife, Thompson said.
The Hoffmans' daughter called 911, Thompson said.
At 2:24 a.m., Boelter allegedly drove to a state representative's house in Maple Grove, Thompson said. That lawmaker was not home as she and her family were on vacation, Thompson said, and Boelter left the scene.
Boelter then allegedly drove to a state senator's home in New Hope and parked on the street, Thompson said.
At 2:36 a.m., after learning of the shooting at Hoffman's home, New Hope police dispatched an officer to the New Hope lawmaker's house, Thompson said. When the officer arrived, she saw Boelter's car parked down the block and she believed Boelter was an officer dispatched to the scene, Thompson said.
The officer pulled up next to Boelter, rolled down her window and tried to speak with him, but he did not respond and stared straight ahead, Thompson said. So the New Hope officer drove to the state senator's home and waited for other law enforcement, and by that time, Boelter had left the scene, Thompson said.
State Sen. Ann Rest identified herself as that lawmaker who was spared.
"I am so grateful for the heroic work of the New Hope Police Department and its officers. Their quick action saved my life," she said in a statement Monday. "I am also thankful for the work of state and local law enforcement to apprehend the suspect before he could take any more lives."
Rest added, "I grieve for the loss of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and I am praying for the recovery of John and Yvette Hoffman."
After the Hoffmans were shot, officers also proactively went to the home of his fellow lawmaker,former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Melissa Hortman, in the nearby town of Brooklyn Park.
When two Brooklyn Park officers arrived, they saw Boelter's SUV in the driveway with emergency lights flashing and Boelter standing in front of the house a few feet from the door, Thompson said.
When Boelter saw the officers, he allegedly started firing and rushed into the house, killing Hortman and her husband, Thompson said.
The Brooklyn Park officers fired at Boelter while he allegedly rushed into the home, but Boelter escaped into the house and out the back, Thompson said.
The officers who confronted the suspect likely prevented other shootings, according to Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
The target list recovered from the suspect's car outside the Hortmans' house had a list of dozens of Minnesota Democrats, including Hoffman, Hortman, Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter.
The shootings sparked a massive, two-day manhunt that included 20 SWAT teams, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles, authorities said.
Boelter was armed when he was apprehended in a rural area late Sunday, authorities said, but he was taken into custody without incident.
Boelter, who is in federal custody, made a brief first appearance in federal court on Monday, wearing a two-piece orange jail suit, orange socks and black slides. Boelter said he has about $20,000 to $30,000 in his bank accounts and asked for a public defender. His combined preliminary and detention hearing was set for June 27.
A motive is unclear, Thompson said.
According to an interview with an unnamed witness, Boelter tried to buy an electronic bike and a Buick in north Minneapolis at 7 a.m. following the attacks, and allegedly drove with the witness to a bank where he withdrew $2,200 in cash, according to court documents.
Hours after the shootings, Boelter allegedly texted his family, "Dad went to war last night ... I don't wanna say more because I don't want to implicate anybody," according to the affidavit.
Boelter also allegedly texted his wife, "Words are not gonna explain how sorry I am for this situation ... there's gonna be some people coming to the house armed and trigger-happy and I don't want you guys around."
In a search of Boelter's wife's car, law enforcement recovered two handguns, approximately $10,000 in cash and passports for Boelter's wife and her children, the affidavit said.
