Pope calls for end to ‘pandemic of arms’ while praying for Minnesota school shooting victims
Pope Leo XIV condemned a deadly U.S. school Mass shooting and urged an end to global arms proliferation.
Pope Leo XIV condemned a deadly U.S. school Mass shooting and urged an end to global arms proliferation.
Melissa Hortman, called Minnesota’s “most consequential speaker,” was shot with her husband in an attack authorities call an assassination.
Boetler, 57, made the claim in a rambling 1.5-page handwritten note, described by sources as “mostly incoherent.”
Minnesota authorities say Vance Luther Boelter, accused of killing State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, had planned attacks on multiple lawmakers and carried a list of over 45 elected officials.
Vance Boelter opened fire on officers outside Melissa Hortman’s home before forcing entry and killing the former House Speaker, authorities said.
The gunman who killed Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband also shot their golden retriever, forcing their children to put the pet down, a fellow lawmaker said.
The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another has been taken into custody, two law enforcement officials said, bringing an end to a nearly two-day search that put the state on edge
Jenny Boelter, wife of Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter and a former Tim Walz staffer, was detained during a traffic stop after police found a weapon, ammunition, cash, and passports.
Jenny, traveling with several relatives near Onamia around 10 a.m., was questioned for hours but not formally arrested.
A suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers was a Walz appointee and heads a global security firm.