Vance Boelter to appear in court on four murder charges today
The suspect alleged to have killed Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, will appear in court in Minneapolis today at 1.30 p.m. local time.
He faces four counts of murder, two of which relate to the shooting of state legislator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, who are recovering.
Boelter, 57, is being held on a $5 million bond and police released a mugshot of him wearing an orange jumpsuit.
How Boelter was captured: Law enforcement explain the conclusion to a massive manhunt
The suspect wanted in the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, as well as in the injury shooting of a state senator and his wife, was found Sunday night armed and crawling in a field in a sparsely populated stretch of Minnesota, authorities said.
Law enforcement numbering nearly 200 — including members of 20 regional and local SWAT teams — descended on eastern Sibley County, about an hour outside Minneapolis, starting Sunday morning. But the suspect may have taken advantage of rural terrain to remain hidden most of the day, authorities said.
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