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.

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

St. Cloud State graduate Vance Boelter appeared in federal court Monday afternoon. He is assigned a public defender, citing financial woes.

After a 43-hour manhunt and intense search, authorities arrested a Minnesota man accused of shooting two state Democratic lawmakers and their spouses. Vance Boelter, 57, now faces both federal and state charges in connection with the killings of 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.

Earlier that morning, court documents state Boelter also traveled to the home of Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, where he shot them a total of 19 times. He also made the trek to two other lawmakers’ homes, allegedly with the intent to kill them, but they were not at home.

How did Vance Boelter escape the home of slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and trigger what law enforcement called "the largest manhunt in state history?" WCCO’s Jennifer Mayerle investigates.

It’s scary,’’ Democratic state Sen. Ann Rest said — shortly after it was revealed that Boelter had allegedly shot and wounded another Minnesota senator and his wife before  parking near her home

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.