The Minnesota attacks began around 2am on Saturday (3pm, Singapore time), when a gunman wearing a police-style tactical vest knocked on the Hoffmans’ door in Champlin, announced himself as a police officer and then shot the couple multiple times inside, according to prosecutors.
He was driving an SUV outfitted with police-style lights and a fake license plate that read “POLICE.”
Boelter then traveled to the home of another state lawmaker in Maple Grove, where he rang the doorbell at 2.24am (3.24pm, Singapore time), Thompson said. The official was not home at the time.
Boelter also visited the home of a legislator in New Hope, prosecutors said. A New Hope officer, dispatched to the house to conduct a wellness check after police learned of the Hoffman shooting, took Boelter, who was parked outside, to be another police officer and pulled up next to him.
“He just sat there and stared straight ahead,” Thompson said of Boelter. The responding officer went to the door to wait for additional officers, and Boelter had left by the time they arrived, prosecutors said.
Shortly after, police went to the Hortmans’ house in Brooklyn Park as a precaution. The arriving officers saw the suspect shoot Mark Hortman through an open door around 3.35 am (4.35pm, Singapore time) and exchanged fire with him before he fled on foot out the back door, according to prosecutors.
Melissa Hortman was already dead inside.
When police searched Boelter’s SUV after the shootings, they discovered three AK-47 assault rifles, a 9-mm handgun, a gold police-style badge and the target list, according to authorities.
Source: CNA
