Minnesota shootings suspect Vance Boelter: Wisconsin ties?
Does suspect have ties to Wisconsin?
A manhunt is underway for Vance Boelter, a suspect in the Saturday shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.
MILWAUKEE - A manhunt is underway for Vance Boelter, a suspect in the Saturday shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.
Lawmaker shootings
The backstory:
A Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband are dead after what police are calling a "targeted" shooting of political violence early Saturday morning.
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Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot in their Brooklyn Park home. Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were shot in their Champlin home. Officials say they are out of surgery and are recovering. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said they're cautiously optimistic they'll survive.
Live updates on MN lawmaker shootings: Rep. Hortman and her husband killed; manhunt for Vance Boelter
A Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband are dead after what police are calling a "targeted" shooting early Saturday morning. A manhunt is underway for the suspect, Vance Boelter.
Authorities are looking for 57-year-old Vance Boelter as a suspect in connection with the shootings, police said. He was said to be impersonating police at the time of the shooting, but now he could be wearing a cowboy hat and a dark-colored shirt.
Officials said they still don't know if additional people are involved, but Boelter is who they're looking at as a person of interest as of Saturday afternoon. They did say there may be other people with him.
Wisconsin ties?
Local perspective:
FOX6 News looked into a number of leads about Boelter's possible ties to southeast Wisconsin. Here's what we learned.
A LinkedIn profile for Boelter shows he earned a pair of degrees from the now-shuttered Cardinal Stritch University – a Master of Science in Management in 2010 and a Doctorate in Leadership in 2016. FOX6 reached out to the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which manages the defunct university's student records. We have not yet heard back.
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The LinkedIn profile shows Boelter was in a master's program from 2008-2010 and a doctoral program from 2011 to 2016. Cardinal Strich University closed in 2023.
Boelter also worked for Sheboygan Falls-based sausage maker Johnsonville, according to the LinkedIn profile. A spokesperson for the company could not immediately confirm that employment. The profile said he was there from 2004-2008.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced a LinkedIn profile for Boelter and reached out to the organizations listed on that profile for further comment. Information about the shootings is from FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul coverage, which referenced multiple sources including local law enforcement.