He wounded Sen. John Hoffman and his wife but didn’t come into contact with the two other DFL legislators, investigators say.

Heavily armed and dressed in tactical armor with a silicone mask hiding his face and a police-style badge, Vance Boelter made a convincing police officer – so much so that a real police officer mistook him for a fellow cop.

Eric Rudolph hid in the North Carolina wilderness for years after he bombed Centennial Olympic Park, a gay nightclub, and two abortion clinics; Boelter lasted a mere weekend. Yet both men belong to the same lineage.

Vance Boelter killed Rep. Melissa Hortman and wounded Sen. John Hoffman in a planned shooting. A manifesto, weapons cache, and list of targets were found in his car

Wendy Thomas was driving her old Chevy pickup truck home from a friend’s house shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday. The sun was low over rural Sibley County, a place of woods, streams, fields and crops an hour’s drive southwest of Minneapolis.

New details about Vance Boelter, accused of fatally shooting a state lawmaker and her husband, were revealed in court documents.

After exchanging gunfire with alleged killer Vance Boelter, police searched his abandoned vehicle and found a chilling trove of weaponry and a list of names.