Vance Boelter was sentenced to two life sentences plus 40 years for the June 2025 killings of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and for shooting Senator John Hoffman and his wife. A federal judge described it as the longest sentence ever handed down, citing Boelter's politically motivated violence and deception in posing as a police officer.
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Vance Boelter receives two life terms after admitting politically motivated killings and shootings Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison on Thursday, a little over a year after the political attacks. Vance Boelter, 59, was sentenced to two cons
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BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who assassinated Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, just got sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years. He will die in prison. A federal judge said it was the longest sentence he's ever handed down, for a man who posed as a police officer to gun down elected officials in their own homes.
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Deranged gunman was sentenced to 2 consecutive life terms + 40 years in prison after pleading guilty in June to the 6 counts related to the killings of House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, & shootings of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette #Pinks www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl... The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband was sentence
Judge says that long sentence is merited for slaying of state Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
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Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused enduring fear and fury as he changed their lives forever.
The man accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Horton was sentenced to two consecutive life terms, plus 40 years in prison on Thursday. Vance Boelter, 59, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars over a year after his fatal shooting of Horton and her husband Mark Horton. To avoid...