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Multiple sources confirmed to Alpha News that the handwritten letter\u2014described as a confession\u2014was addressed to Kash Patel, the director of the FBI. Law enforcement discovered the letter inside a Buick Boelter had purchased just hours after shooting Minnesota state Sent. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and fatally shooting Minnesota legislator and Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman along with her husband, Mark.<\/p>\n
After an extensive manhunt\u2014the largest in Minnesota\u2019s history\u2014Vance Boelter was arrested near his home in Green Isle, Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Boelter has been charged with the murders of Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, as well as the shootings of Senator John Hoffman and his wife, both of whom are recovering. According to charging documents, authorities found a handwritten note signed \u201cDr. Vance Luther Boelter,\u201d in which Boelter admitted to being the \u201cshooter at large in Minnesota involved in the two shootings.\u201d<\/p>\n
The documents also state that Boelter purchased a Buick and an e-bike for $900 from an unknown individual at a bus stop in north Minneapolis. That person later drove Boelter to a U.S. Bank branch, where he withdrew $2,200 from his account. Surveillance footage from the bank showed Boelter wearing a cowboy hat\u2014an image the FBI later released during the manhunt. Additional security footage from Boelter\u2019s north Minneapolis residence, where he rented a room, also captured him wearing a cowboy hat.<\/p>\n