• News
  • Film and TV
  • Music
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Weird
  • Community
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
Chilling audio of emergency call reveals new details after two Democratic lawmakers were shot in their homes

Home> News> Politics

Published 11:05 15 Jun 2025 GMT+1

Chilling audio of emergency call reveals new details after two Democratic lawmakers were shot in their homes

Lawmakers Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman were attacked on June 14 by a man who opposed abortion rights

Britt Jones

Britt Jones

The audio of an emergency call made after two Democratic lawmakers were attacked in their homes has been released.

On June 14, Minnesota lawmakers Melissa Hortman, 55, and John Hoffman, 60, and their spouses were attacked in their respective homes, with emergency dispatch audio having since been released of the moment dispatchers attended the scene.

The attack killed Minnesota Rep. Hortman and her husband Mark, while Senator Hoffman and his wife Yvette remain in hospital receiving treatment for their injuries.

Police confirmed that they were first notified of the shooting at Hoffman’s home at approximately 2.00am, according to Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Advert

They then 'proactively' visited Hortman’s home where they were met with the suspect - named by police as Vance Luther Boelter, 57 - ‘immediately’ firing at them.

Evans claimed: "The individual was able to escape during that exchange of gunfire."

Boelter is alleged to have text his roommate that he ‘may be dead shortly’. Law enforcement said they found a manifesto that named several other people on his alleged hit list as it was revealed that those on the list were abortion rights activists.

State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark died from their injuries (Minnesota House of Representatives photographer's office/Minnesota State Senate)
State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark died from their injuries (Minnesota House of Representatives photographer's office/Minnesota State Senate)

Advert

Audio recordings from the night in question were obtained by TMZ, where dispatchers can be heard describing the injuries sustained by the lawmakers in their homes.

According to the audio, Hoffman was shot once in the elbow and once in the abdomen, where he had ‘bleeding going on in his stomach’ that was ‘very distended.’

There was also said to be a female victim in the home with Hoffman who had been shot three times, once in her arm and twice in her abdomen.

Hortman and her husband had also sustained gunshot wounds, with a second audio recording detailing the account of medical dispatchers revealing that one victim was going into cardiac arrest while the other had died at the scene before emergency services arrived.

Advert

Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette are still in hospital (Minnesota House of Representatives photographer's office/Minnesota State Senate)
Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette are still in hospital (Minnesota House of Representatives photographer's office/Minnesota State Senate)

They claimed that the suspect may have holed up inside of the home of his victims.

That same day, a press conference was held in which authorities stated that they had exchanged gunfire with the alleged suspect at Hortman’s home, but he managed to escape on foot.

Police shared that the suspect had imitated a police officer and was currently at large and that he had been wearing ‘a light-colored cowboy hat with a dark-colored long-sleeve collared shirt or coat, light pants and carrying a dark bag’ during the last time he was seen.

Advert

As he could be ‘armed and dangerous’, police issued a manhunt for him in Brooklyn Park.

Hortman was the top House Democratic leader in the state legislature and a former house speaker. She was first elected in 2004.

Meanwhile, Hoffman, a Democrat, was first elected in 2012. He runs Hoffman Strategic Advisors, a consulting firm.

He previously served as vice-chairman of the Anoka Hennepin School Board, which manages the largest school district in Minnesota.

Advert

Both Hoffman and Hortman represented districts located north of Minneapolis.

Featured Image Credit: Minnesota Legislature

Topics: Police, Gun Crime, Mental Health, US News, Politics

Britt Jones
Britt Jones

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

4 hours ago
7 hours ago
8 hours ago
9 hours ago
  • 4 hours ago

    Amazon Prime series with near-perfect RT score is labeled 'one of the best' by Stephen King

    The series starring Titus Welliver has been branded 'one of the most underrated TV shows'

    Film & TV
  • 7 hours ago

    People horrified after hearing tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s ‘sociopathic’ response about the future of humanity

    People have been creeped out by how he answered a simple question

    News
  • 8 hours ago

    Doctor issues warning over hidden symptoms of Lyme disease as tick bites near record highs in US states

    Parts of the US have seen a sudden uptick in tick bites

    News
  • 9 hours ago

    ‘World’s top couple’s therapist’ reveals the one surprising behavior in people’s relationships that ‘scares her’

    The psychologist said this one thing in other couples doesn't seem real

    News
  • Two Democratic lawmakers and spouses shot in their homes as police issue shelter-in-place alert
  • Chilling final words of son who was 'fatally shot by father' while protecting his pregnant fiancée
  • Sheriff deputy's son in custody after mass shooting kills 2 and injures 6 as chilling details emerge
  • Chilling new details emerge in case of mom who murdered her four kids before taking her own life