GOP Senator Deletes Posts About Minnesota Shootings
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Threats and violent acts have become part of the political landscape, still shocking but somehow not so surprising.
Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. He appeared in federal court after being charged with murder.
Q&A with Jillian Peterson, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Hamline University and co-founder of The Violence Project
Melissa Hortman lived the deep partisan divide that Americans talk about every day as a Minnesota House member.
The suspect made his first appearance in federal court Monday following his arrest Sunday in the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses Saturday.
Investigators announced federal murder and stalking charges against 57-year-old Vance Boelter. Prosecutors accuse Boelter of shooting two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses, killing one
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The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at home are the latest in a grim spike in political violence.
Statements are trickling in from elected officials about the shootings targeting state lawmakers. Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband died.
Friends and associates say Vance Boelter, the man officials say was apprehended Sunday night in the assassination of a state lawmaker, was mild-mannered and did not appear to be fixated on politics.