Who Really Stopped the Assassin? The Real and Untold Story Behind the Minnesota Political Shootings

Swift action by officers and dispatchers likely saved dozens of lives in the June 14 Boelter shooting spree—an unrecognized triumph of instinct and courage!

Jun 28, 2025

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This article is dedicated to recognizing the heroic efforts of the officers, communications officers, and possibly the watch commanders of the City of Champlin Minnesota who responded to the shooting at the Hoffman residence on June 14th, 2025, at approximately 2:00 a.m. Representative Hoffman and his wife Yvette are alive today due to care received by initial first responders. I am part of the large body of liberty loving citizens who are grieved and angered by the shootings and murders committed by Vance Boelter.

I pray for the families of the victims as well as the communities they served. There are rare occasions where I prefer federal prosecution. Minnesota hasn’t exercised capital punishment in 119 years and abolished it in 1911. In this case I prefer a death sentence to be on the table regardless of whether Boelter is executed or not.

The shootings

Senator John Hoffman was shot 9 times, and his wife Yvette 8 times. Due to the lifesaving efforts of the first responders at the scene and the support of emergency medical services they both survived this shooting. Early media reports suggested City of Champlin Officers alerted other nearby police jurisdictions to check the well-being of the elected representatives in their area. I researched this via the state emergency operations center that served as a central point of contact. They advised me that they had forwarded my request to Champlin and Brooklyn Park, but I haven’t heard anything back.

Without question, the real story are the heroes who put two plus two together and limited this murderous spree to four victims.

At that time suspect information was limited, and it is unlikely based on published reports if surrounding jurisdictions were made aware that the suspect was using a police disguise and a vehicle with emergency lighting that convincingly presented as a police squad car.

Shortly thereafter, Brooklyn Park police officers conducted a check the well-being of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman. Upon arriving at her residence, officers observed a vehicle with flashing emergency lights in the driveway of the residence that appeared to be a police squad car. The suspect, still dressed in a police disguise, engaged the Brooklyn Park police officers shooting at them. The suspect then moved into the house and killed Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

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The responding officers, not knowing the victims were murdered, acted on the best information that you have during a 3:30 a.m. response with a suddenly active shooter, which they logically assumed had transitioned into a barricaded gunman situation. The Hortman’s home is adjacent to a golf course, and the scene suggests suspect murdered the victims and slipped out the back. Evidence collected near the scene on the golf course included a field stripped Barretta 9mm with the slide removed and loaded magazines with ammo bearing the same headstamps as the casings recovered at the scene. From this spot in Brooklyn Park, the manhunt began. On this chaotic day, with the 1,800 ‘No Kings Day’ protests occurring nationwide, twenty well-regulated tactical teams began the largest manhunt in Minnesota history.

Media reports and distortions

Boelter was captured near his home in Green Isle and officials discovered a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel in the suspect’s abandoned vehicle. This was first reported by Alpha News reporter, author and former anchorwomen Liz Collin. Over the last few years, I’ve had indirect contact with her. I read her book They’re Lying, and followed her reporting and in my experience, Collin has proven that she is the hallmark of journalistic integrity and honesty. The letter was mentioned in the federal arrest affidavit without mentioning some of the accusations regarding Governor Walz and Senator Klobuchar

Here is the information that was published as a scoop by Alpha News:

“Assassination suspect Vance Boelter wrote a letter in which he blamed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for the murderous rampage Boelter committed, according to sources.
Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation have confirmed to Alpha News that Boelter’s so-called confession letter was intended for Kash Patel, the director of the FBI.
The handwritten letter was discovered by law enforcement inside the Buick that Boelter purchased just hours after he shot Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and then shot and killed Minnesota legislator and Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.”

Now, here is information from the mainstream media:

NY Post
Accused Minnesota political assassin Vance Boetler wrote a deranged letter addressed to the FBI in which he wildly claimed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar, according to a report.
Boetler, 57, alleged in the rambling, conspiratorial letter that the former Democrat vice presidential candidate directed him to murder Klobuchar (D-MN) as part of a supposed plot for Walz to take her spot in the Senate, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported, citing people familiar with the writings.
The letter, which is one and a half pages long, is mostly incoherent and gives insight into the muddled mindof the Minnesota madman, those sources told the outlet.
The Western Journal reports by Ole Braatelein:
In a deranged letter to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter reportedly accused Gov. Tim Walz of ordering him to assassinate another Minnesota Democrat.
The letter, according to two anonymous sources aware of its contents, said Walz wanted Boelter to kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported Friday.
The sources described the conspiratorial letter as being one and a half pages long, “incoherent,” and “confusing and hard to read.”
The Minnesota Star Tribune:
In a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate, according to two people familiar with the contents of the letter.
The letter is the clearest evidence yet of Boelter’s mindset after the targeted violence against Minnesota politicians last week. It is incoherent, one and a half pages long, confusing and hard to read, according to two people familiar with the letter’s contents. It includes Boelter alleging he had been trained by the U.S. military off the books, and that Walz, who is not running for Senate, had asked him to kill Klobuchar and others.
Daily Beast using the biased headline ‘MAGA Madman Blames Tim Walz for His Murderous Rampage’:
The letter is reportedly one and a half pages long and “incoherent and hard to read.” In it, Boelter alleges that he had been trained by the U.S. military “off the books,” and that Walz asked him to kill Klobuchar and several others. Sen. Tina Smith, the other Senator from Minnesota, was also named in the letter.

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A crisis of integrity

In all of the reports, bold emphasis is added to highlight the commonality of these reports. In the publications quoted, there was no attribution to wire services or news syndicates at the time this research was conducted.

Also, it is vital to understand, none of these descriptive reporters ever saw the letter. Not one.

Nearly all the news resources reporting on the letter, which we know for a fact, based to the responsible reporting by Alpha News, exists and the mainstream media use identical terms of deranged, incoherent, rambling, incoherent and hard to read, conspiratorial, confusing and hard to read, as their descriptors. These are just a sample of media outlets, but the overriding themes tend to support the media mockingbird accusation that are highlighted in YouTube videos where news readers repeat common esoteric terms seemingly spontaneously across all media platforms.

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While finishing college, I idolized the FBI and the DEA. The Fox network was new, and they featured the original reality show ‘Cops’ and for two seasons a fictional show about the DEA. In my career, I enjoyed our local – federal partnerships and many of my co-workers and friends were task force agents. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prides itself on the bold motto of Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. The bureau has suffered some bruises over the years with Abscam, DeLorean, and Russiagate, but nothing compares to the contemporary reliability of information leaks.

A key resource to find news that is unreported in local and mainstream media is the Associated Press. The AP is biased to a degree that they are unrecognizable from their prior prestigious status of reporting without editorializing - even as recently as 15 years ago. This wire service icon, has chosen to politically slant the news. They remain relevant only based on the global breadth of the syndicated news they supply and despite fierce competition, they often have sources ‘familiar with the situation’ who will furnish details on the ‘condition of anonymity.’

In many cases they have sources that have an inside track on federal criminal investigations, and they get information from ‘unnamed sources’ that are certainly FBI agents. Most law enforcement employees are required to be trained and to test at least every three years on Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS.) Unfortunately, any FBI personnel who provides confidential information to the media, is in direct violation of the most basic information security rules. Misuse of these systems by a local agency is tied to a threat of being kicked off the state and national ‘telegraph’ system. Can you imagine a law enforcement agency unable to post or look up warrants? The FBI needs to live up to its motto of integrity.

One of the valuable resources that used reason and logical conclusions for this article is the Substack Screaming into the Void. Thank you for your research on this topic.

Confidential sources gone wrong

On Saturday, June 21,2025, United States Air Force bombers delivered a destructive payload of ordinance on Iran’s underground nuclear facilities. Following that strike a brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran was established. Prior to that and as recent as June 19, 2025, numerous news outlets, including CNN’s Erin Burnett suggested that, based on ‘trusted sources’, the Islamic Republic of Iran was still years away from nuclear weapons capability. However, on June 24, 2025, this same reporter Burnett, based on confidential sources, claimed the strikes had not crippled the program, and despite the deployment of advanced weaponry in a precision strike, that now Iran was only delayed by months in developing a nuclear weapon. Both of these assertions are proven false.

While some claim that the Boelter letter is far-fetched and the disorganized deliberations of a man being hunted by twenty tactical teams, the true details of the 2002 D.C. beltway sniper case will awaken your thoughts an even more fantastic story of John Muhammed and Lee Malvo, where murders were committed as a distraction to mask their true purpose and final goal.

Thank you law enforcement heroes

Whoever were the heroes of June 14, 2025, I salute you! Based on your situational awareness and instincts, Boelter was isolated and identified in less than two hours and he only shot two of his intended targets on his list of 70 public officials. If the ‘well-being’ checks had been delayed, he certainly would have inflicted more damage - even on subsequent days. Today, as we are constantly offered newer and better technology, our police officers and support staff continue to prove themselves irreplaceable.

Please keep all law enforcement employees in your prayers.