A person with a name Vance Boelter allegedly shot and killed Melissa Hortman, Democratic State Representative of Minnesota, whose husband, Mark Hortman, was at their home sometime early Saturday morning while law enforcement officers pretended to be police. He also allegedly shot and killed state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman. They are still alive, but still in critical condition.
Law enforcement said they found declarations and hit rates in the cars of the alleged suspects, including politicians, abortion providers and abortion rights advocates. He also allegedly had flyers in his car to protest President Donald Trump’s “King-free” protest, which took place across the United States on Saturday.
The 57-year-old was identified by law enforcement as a suspicious shooter, runs armed security with his wife and has ties to at least one evangelical organization, a ministry he also runs with. (Not immediately commented with his wife.) The suspect had served as the Minister of Renovation, according to the archived website of public records and Wired reviews. The version of the Ministry’s website, captured in 2011, comes with a biography, and he is said to have been appointed in 1993.
According to an archived website of the ministry reviewed by Wired, the alleged shootingman’s missionary work brought him to Gaza and the West Bank during the Second Uprising, which noted that he “seeks radical Islamists to share the gospel and tells them that violence is not the answer.transparent
A later version of the website was designed according to an archived copy of Israeli web design firm J-Town. J-Town CEO Charlie Kalech told Wade that the suspects were allegedly “apparently religious and evangelical. He had a lot of ideas to make the world a better place.” J-Town commissioned J-Town to recall that the suspects Kalech said were “just good things to me” because they were Jerusalem, and he said he wanted to support Israel.
Before being removed, Cable briefly looked at a Facebook profile in the name of suspicious shooter. His profile shows that he “liked” several evangelical missionary organizations, as well as a page honoring Reinhard Bonnke, a German Pentecostal Evangelist known for his missionaries in several African countries, while Smith Wigglesworth was an English evangelical missionary with influence in the Pentecostal movement. He also “loves” the Defence of Liberty Alliance, a conservative legal advocacy group known for its hard-line stance against abortion and LGBTQ rights.
The suspicious shooter also appears to be the Director of Security Patrol for Praetorian Guard Security Services, a security company that serves Minneapolis and St. Paul metro areas and has been established with his wife Jenny. The company promotes residential safety patrols and unified safety patrols. The “Red Line” section of the company’s website says: “We only offer armed security. If you are looking for an unarmed guard, use another service to better meet your needs.” The website also notes that their “guards” wear “the best personal protective equipment that money can buy.”
