The Wall Street Journal reports:
The suspect in the shooting of Minnesota lawmakers on Saturday was feeling down and unhappy with his work situation, but showed no signs that he could turn violent, his self-described best friend and part-time roommate said.
Boelter had built a scattered career that included food companies, retailing and pastoring, according to public records and his online posts. He has been living with his wife in a rural area outside the Twin Cities, and staying a few nights a week at a rental home in a working-class Minneapolis neighborhood with a couple of roommates.
Boelter was working overnight shifts for an organization that handles eye donations, said one roommate, David Carlson, and was trying to get a security company off the ground. Carlson woke Saturday to a troubling text. Boelter said he was “going to be gone for a while” and “may be dead shortly,” according to local media reports, which Carlson confirmed. The text prompted him to call the police.
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So the alleged suspect not only, had a manifesto which listed dozens of Democrats (and only democrats) as his targets, but is a hardcore evangelical, ans supporter of the “Alliance Defending Freedom” which is the ultra-Christian nationalist legal organization, that funds… https://t.co/vmXBSCEAh7 pic.twitter.com/5x1sG5onqk
— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) June 14, 2025
MN Suspect Is Far-Right Ordained Evangelical Pastor, Supported Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group, Had Hit List Of Top Democrats And Abortion Providers
https://t.co/vMTGjtmkMY pic.twitter.com/SPdU59nbI7— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) June 14, 2025
Vance Boelter’s roommate reads a text from him. The roommate confirms he was a Trump supporter, says that no one would believe he did this.
This is often the case in ideological killings. If you take pro-life dogma seriously, something like this makes logical sense. pic.twitter.com/x0W5kAFkEP
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) June 14, 2025
The murderer, Vance Boelter: “There’s people, especially in America, that don’t know what sex they are. They’re confused. The enemy has gotten so far into their mind and their soul.”
Sounds like Elon, tbh pic.twitter.com/eydRNHw3Wo
— Battery Belter (@BatteryBelter) June 14, 2025