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Minnesota shooting suspect told friend in text message: I might be dead soon
David Carlson, 59, told Reuters that he has been sharing a house in Minneapolis with Boelter for a little more than a year and last saw him on Friday night. Then about 6 a.m. on Saturday,he received a text from Boelter.
"He said that he might be dead soon," said Carlson, who called police.
Carlson, who has known Boelter since fourth grade, saidBoelter worked for an eye donation center and stayed at the house because it was close to his job.Carlson said he feels betrayed by Boelter and heartbroken for the victims, adding: "His family has got to suffer through this."
In social media accounts, public records and websites reviewed by Reuters, Boelter described himself as a Christian minister, a security expert with experience in the Middle East and Africa, and a former employee of food service companies.
Boelter said he was the chief executive of an organization called the Red Lion Group, based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He and his wife, Jennifer, also ran a security service called Praetorian Guard Security Services LLC; Minnesota corporate records list her as a manager.
The company website says it offers only armed guard security services, and Boelter wrote that he had been "involved with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip." The claims could not be immediately verified.
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Boelter wrote on LinkedIn a month ago that he was looking for work: "Hi everyone! I'm looking to get back into the U.S. Food Industry and I'm pretty open to positions" in Texas, Minnesota, Florida and the Washington DC area.
Nonprofit tax filings show that Boelter and his wife ran a Christian ministry organization called Revoformation. The most recent filing, in 2010, lists Boelter as president.
On an archived version of the Revoformation web page from 2011, Boelter said he was ordained in 1993 as a minister, and had been raised in the small town of Sleepy Eye, about 100 miles southwest of Minneapolis.
In his biography on that site, Boelter claimed to have made trips to "violent areas in the Gaza Strip and West Bank where suicide bombings were taking place."
"He sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer," the biography says. Boelter said he went to St. Cloud State University, the now-closed Cardinal Stritch University and the Christ for the Nations Institute, a Bible college in Dallas.
After firing at police on Saturday, the suspect abandoned a vehicle in which officers found a "manifesto" and a list of other legislators and officials, law enforcement officials said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/minnesota-shooting-suspect-told-friend-text-message-i-might-be-dead-soon-2025-06-15/
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MINNEAPOLIS - After Vance Boelter allegedly carried out one of the most shocking acts of political violence in state history,he texted his lifelong friends and roommates in Minneapolis.
“I love you guys, I made some choices,” Boelter wrote. “I’m going to be gone for a while. May be dead shortly.”
Boelter, a 57-year-old man from Green Isle, Minnesota, has been identified as the main suspect in the killings of Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attempted slayings of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
Online profiles, news clips and interviews with neighbors and friends show that Boelter had built an eclectic career weaving from food service to international religious missionary work and local political appointments. He was also intimately familiar with politics and public safety in Minnesota.
Police executed a search warrant Saturday afternoon to a home at 4830 Fremont Av. N. in Minneapolis that one of Boelter’s roommates, who wished not to be identified, said he rented for the last two years. He typically slept there one or two nights a week so he could be closer to work.
Police busted down the door and windows midafternoon, and Boelter’s roommates were in a state of shock as they swept broken glass from the front of the house. Remaining pieces of the door frame and track marks from an armored vehicle were covering the lawn.
One of the roommates, 59-year-old David Carlson, said he had been friends with Boelter for about 50 years, dating back to fourth grade. He and another friend got a text at 6:17 a.m., which Carlson read aloud to reporters.
Carlson sobbed and paused in the middle before reading the next sentence: “May be dead shortly, so I just want to let you know I love you guys both and I wish it hadn’t gone this way.”
Carlson said he called the police after finding the text.
Calls by reporters to several of Boelter’s family members resulted in hang-ups, with no comment.
Boelter carried a manifesto that listed “prominent pro-choice individuals in Minnesota, including many Democratic lawmakers,” sources familiar with the investigation said.
Boelter, graduated from St. Cloud State University in 1996 with a degree in elective studies, focusing on international relations. He was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019, according to a news release by Gov. Tim Walz’s office that year. Hoffman served several stints on the board, including from 2018-2023, according to the Secretary of State’s website. He was also appointed to the Dakota-Scott Workforce Development Board in 2021.
When Boelter was appointed to the Dakota-Scott board, he was serving as the director of operations for 7-11 in Cottage Grove. He also served as general manager for a major food distributor based in Shakopee and represented the convenience store chain Marathon Petroleum Corp.
Those were just part of his unique career path.
An online video from two years ago appears to show Boelter preaching to a congregation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he says, “I met Jesus when I was 17 years old, and I gave my life to him,” adding that he and his wife have four daughters and a son.
In a self-made resume-style video posted to social media, Boelter spelled out his work in the funeral home industry and a food supply business projected in Africa.He said he works six days a week, splitting his time with Wulf Funeral Home and Metro First Call.
“Fun fact about myself,” he continued,“I’ve been in the food industry for about 30 years, and that led to an opportunity. I was invited to the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa. … I was asked a couple years ago to go and see what I can do on ideas for their food supply system.”
Tim Koch, owner of Metro First Call, said Boelter worked for his funeral services company from August 2023 to February 2025, when he “voluntarily left.” Koch declined to say more other than expressing his condolences to the Hortman and Hoffman families.
Boelter was also director of security patrols at Praetorian Guard Security Services, a residential armed home security company. His wife, Jenny, was its president.
According to its website, the company offers armed security with guards wearing personal protective equipment and driving “the same make and model of vehicles that many police departments use.”
In his biography, Boelter he describes himself as Dr. Vance Boelter, who “has been involved with security situations inEastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.”
Law enforcement officials said that when they arrived at Hortman’s home, a dark SUV with police lights was in the driveway and a man dressed like a police officer opened fire on Brooklyn Park police officers.
According to his roommate, Boelter had bought the squad cars because he was interested in starting a security company.
“He was just the nicest guy,” Carlson said. “I mean, I can’t believe this has all happened.”
On Friday night, Carlson recalled, Boelter said that he loved him.
“He paid for four months of rent in advance, and said I was his best friend, and that he loves me,” Carlson said. “I thanked him for that, our friendship and everything.”
“I would have never expected anything like this,” he said.
https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/national/who-is-vance-boelter-the-man-police-identified-as-suspect-in-the-assassination-of-minnesota/article_e78b66f8-94b0-5bfc-b9ea-8b947255cc5a.html
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The kill list recovered from his car also targets Gov Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, several Democratic lawmakers, & abortion-care providers.
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