Senator's wife recounts horrific shooting
The wife of the Minnesota senator who was targeted execution style just days ago recounted the harrowing events.
Yvette Hoffman, the wife of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman, who survived the shooting last week, said she, her husband, and her daughter were lined up execution-style, as The Daily Mail reported.
Assassin Vance Boelter,57, opened fire on the senator and his wife in their Champlin, Minnesota, home at about 2 a.m. on June 14, injuring both of them.
Yvette revealed in a shocking new Facebook post that their adult daughter Hope, who Yvette protected with her body as gunshots rang out, saw her parents shot and was the one who dialed 911 to report the horrific shooting.
The chain of events
Elementary school aide Yvette continued by criticizing the police for dropping charges against Boelter, citing his "attempted murder" of her daughter as an example.
"Our daughter Hope was lined up with John and myself execution style. We were all together in our entryway in a row with our hands up," she wrote.
"She may not have gotten shot because of all the commotion but she was front and center WITH us. After we were incapacitated, she knew to go lock the door and call police and inform them senator Hoffman and mom were shot. Where are the attempted murder charges regarding my daughter? Where?"
Charging the shooter
For the killings of Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, as well as shooting Yvette and John, Boelter has only faced two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.
Hope had to remind the 911 dispatcher multiple times that her father was a senator that awful morning, according to Hope's furious mother.
"If Hope hadn’t intentionally said SENATOR Hoffman the 4 times I remember her saying it to 911 dispatchers. More people would have been slaughtered," Yvette said.
It was another 90 minutes after the Hoffman's tragic encounter that the gunman was found to have made his way to the Hortmans' Brooklyn Park home, where the officers found he was more successful in his alleged attempted murders.
Finding the perp
Around 3:35 a.m., police shot back at the gunman as he ran away from Hortman's house.
Authorities claim that the suspect was able to flee the area on foot after officers allowed him to slip through their fingers.
Boelter, who had previously been appointed by Governor Walz, was chased by the authorities shortly after the heinous murders.
After a major, nearly two-day manhunt that tensed the entire state, he finally surrendered to cops on June 15, when they found him in the woods near his home. He faces charges brought by the state and federal officials and was taken into custody by Hennepin County.