Suspect Vance Boelter in Minnesota lawmakers shooting arrested by police: Sources

State Rep. Melis­sa Hort­man and her hus­band, Mark, were killed in their home.

GREEN ISLE, Minn. — The mas­sive search for the man sus­pect­ed of the fatal shoot­ings of Min­neso­ta law­mak­ers con­clud­ed on Sun­day evening when he was arrest­ed by police, mul­ti­ple sources con­firmed to ABC News.

Vance Boel­ter, 57, was arrest­ed near his farm in Green Isle, Min­neso­ta. He was spot­ted on a trail via cam­era ear­li­er Sun­day and then tak­en into cus­tody, sources said.

He is accused of the fatal shoot­ings of Min­neso­ta state Rep. Melis­sa Hort­man and her hus­band, and a sep­a­rate shoot­ing attack on anoth­er state law­mak­er and his spouse.

The twin attacks in Cham­plin and Brook­lyn Park, Min­neso­ta, on Sat­ur­day led to the dis­cov­ery in the sus­pec­t’s vehi­cle of an alleged tar­get list of dozens of Min­neso­ta Democ­rats, includ­ing Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, U.S. Sen. Tina Smith and state Attor­ney Gen­er­al Kei­th Elli­son, accord­ing to law enforce­ment sources.

Dur­ing a press con­fer­ence Sun­day evening, police said a hat believed to be asso­ci­at­ed with the sus­pect was found near his alleged vehi­cle. There were sev­er­al items of evi­dence rel­e­vant to the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion found in the vehi­cle out­side of the alleged tar­get list, police added, but did not dis­close what else was dis­cov­ered.

The dis­cov­ery of the hat is what led author­i­ties to believe Boel­ter was in the area.

Police said that Boel­ter had been in con­tact with indi­vid­u­als, but were try­ing to deter­mine if he was receiv­ing any assis­tance while on the run from law enforce­ment. “All options are on the table,” said Drew Evans, the super­in­ten­dent of the Bureau of Crim­i­nal Appre­hen­sion in the Min­neso­ta Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safe­ty said ear­li­er Sun­day.

The FBI was offer­ing a $50,000 reward for infor­ma­tion lead­ing to Boel­ter’s arrest.

There was a nation­wide war­rant for Boel­ter’s arrest on a state lev­el and a fed­er­al war­rant for unlaw­ful flight to avoid pros­e­cu­tion, police said Sun­day.

Police tape blocks off the home of Min­neso­ta state Rep. Melis­sa Hort­man, Sun­day, June 15, 2025, in Brook­lyn Park, Minn.