MN shooter in custody - BREAKING - details hard to find - Presser at 1130 EDT (maybe)

[Stinky The Clown]

per our 11.00 news. Neo link, no details

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Link to news report

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/minnesota-shooter-custody-local-reporter-says-2025-06-16/

[Ocelot II]

2. It's being broadcast on local TV news, KSTP.

Should be up on their web site soon.

[usonian]

3. State charges, PLEASE.

I beg no pardon!

[Ocelot II]

4. The crimes he'll be charged with are state crimes. There are no federal crimes involved,

though a federal fugitive warrant was issued so the FBI could assist.

[Mr.WeRP]

8. Murder is a federal charge as is Terrorism. The Feds moved Luigi's case so they could give him the death penalty

They’ll move this case to give this guy a pardon.

[Ocelot II]

9. Luigi's case became federal because it involved interstate stalking.

Murder isn't a federal crime unless the victim is a federal official. Luigi's indictment charges "one count of interstate stalking resulting in death, which carries a maximum potential sentence of life in prison; one count of stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death, which carries a maximum potential sentence of life in prison; and one count of discharging a firearm that was equipped with a silencer in furtherance of a crime of violence." Note that the indictment doesn't charge him with murder, only with stalking that resulted in death. In Boelter's case there's no federal jurisdiction - everything happened in Minnesota. As to terrorism, domestic terrorism is defined in the PATRIOT Act, but there's no separate penalty for it. Acts that fit within the definition are charged as specific crimes under either federal or state law. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47885

[Mr.WeRP]

12. Federal officials are on Boelter's list. That alone can be reason to move to federal court.

[Ocelot II]

16. Is a list a communicated threat?

Even if they could make that a federal crime, there's nothing to stop the state from prosecuting him separately, as happened in the George Floyd murder case. Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder in state court and pled guilty to a federal civil rights violation so he could serve his time in a federal prison. If Trump pardoned him he'd still have to serve his state sentence of approximately the same duration. As to Boelter, the maximum sentence for threatening a federal official is ten years, while the maximum sentence for first degree murder is life. So let's say the feds want to prosecute Boelter for threatening a federal official; if convicted he'd serve 10 years. In the meantime he'd also be prosecuted by Minnesota on two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, with a probable life sentence, so a pardon on the federal charge wouldn't do him a damn bit of good.

[Ocelot II]

21. Luigi was also charged and indicted in New York and Pennsylvania.

The state and the feds have concurrent jurisdiction; the state doesn't give up its case just because there are federal charges as well.

[Mr.WeRP]

5. We will know if Trump plans to pardon him if Feds ask for jurisdiction.

If they move this to federal court, the guy will get a pardon.

[Ocelot II]

10. There's no federal jurisdiction, see above post.

[Mr.WeRP]

13. Time will tell. Federal officials being on Boelter's list of people to assassinate is reason alone.

[Ocelot II]

15. I'm not sure that's enough, but the US attorney's office is expected to look at the situation.

Is the list a threat? We'll see.

[Mr.WeRP]

23. Looks like I was right.

[Jack Valentino]

20. but there was no such attempt made on any Federal officeholders...

Anybody can WRITE ANYTHING!!!!
but just writing something does not make a 'credible threat'


(hope nobody breaks into my basement to see the things that I have written!!! LMAO)

[Ocelot II]

17. See above. He could be prosecuted in both state and federal court,

if there's a basis for jurisdiction. Threatening a federal official carries a 10-year sentence while first-degree murder gets you a life sentence, so what good would a pardon do him?

[Mr.WeRP]

24. It depends if Feds push to move the entire case to Federal

Then we will know. And if his attorneys are like Luigi’s, they will move to dismiss state for federal for Double Jeopardy.

[Ocelot II]

25. They won't and really can't. The state and federal governments are separate entities.

The feds can't take the case away from the state, and double jeopardy won't attach because of the dual sovereignty rule; because states and the federal government are both sovereign governments, a violation of state and federal law is not the “same offense,” but are instead separate offenses. (BTW, we have Sam Alito to thank for that. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-646_d18e.pdf) So the prosecutions can proceed on these two separate tracks, and even if Krasnov were to pardon Boelter for the federal crimes (which I doubt, since Boelter is in no position to bribe him, which is the purpose of Trump's pardons), the state prosecution, if successful, will stick regardless.

[Mountainguy]

7. Very clearly

A state case.

[indigovalley]

6. Friend of shooter says he is a Trump support--NEW video posted on Bluesky

New video interview with the best friend of Boelter. His friend says Boelter did not like Walz or Pelosi and that he was a Trump supporter who listened to InfoWars. He was a Republican and would be upset to be called a Democrat. This is on video from his friend on Bluesky. If someone can tell me how to link I will link to the video.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. MSNBCand presumably all cable news is on air with the story

Stinky, out!

[moondust]

14. Located in the woods.

According to presser on now.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. I'm out in the woods - any update yet?

[moondust]

19. They got him.

He was still armed and crawled to the officers.

[ecstatic]

22. Thank goodness.

And I'm actually glad he was caught alive because there are some discrepancies that need to be explained.