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.

Following the shooting and killing of Melissa Hortman, the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, in their home on Saturday, June 14, Vance Boelter has been arrested as the prime

State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, continued to recover Sunday evening after each being shot multiple times in their Champlin home a day earlier, according to a statement the family shared with Sen.

Vance Boelter is accused of posing as a police officer and fatally shooting former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in their home early Saturday in the northern Minneapolis suburbs. Authorities say he also shot Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, at their home in a nearby neighborhood.

The accused assassin was sitting in a fake squad car outside a lawmaker’s home when a real officer briefly confronted him.

Documents released Sunday night by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office detail how 57-year-old Vance Boelter carried out the shootings that killed House Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman and her husband,

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

A manhunt is underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer and had a list of possible targets, officials said.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office unsealed the criminal complaint charging Vance Boelter with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree attempted murder.