The man accused of fatally shooting a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband last weekend had given his wife instructions for a “bailout plan” in the event the family ever needed to flee suddenly, according to an FBI agent.

This photo made available by the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office shows Vance Luther Boelter, the man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, as he was arrested late Sunday, June 15, 2025. (Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

In an affidavit unsealed Friday, the agent, Terry Getsch, said that the man charged in the shootings, Vance Boelter, and his wife were “preppers,” a term referring to people who believe a catastrophic event is imminent and go to great lengths to prepare for its arrival.

Hours after the attacks early Saturday — which killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette — Boelter sent a text message to his wife and children, according to the court document.

“The text stated something to the effect of they should prepare for war, they needed to get out of the house and people with guns may be showing up to the house,” Getsch wrote.

The Hortman killings were part of what authorities said was Boelter’s broader plot to assassinate politicians. And at some point before the shootings, the agent said, Boelter had given his wife a plan to follow in the event of “exigent circumstances.” Part of that plan entailed traveling to his mother-in-law’s residence in Spring Brook, Wis., roughly 75 miles from the Twin Cities.

Boelter’s wife, Jenny, has not been charged with any crime, and the new court filing does not suggest that she and their children knew about a plot to kill politicians.

Boelter has not entered a plea. Katherian Roe, a federal public defender who is representing Boelter, did not respond to an email Friday seeking comment.

As of Friday afternoon, law enforcement officials said they had found no sign that Boelter had accomplices.

“The evidence we have at the moment indicates Boelter acted alone,” Inspector Matt Rabe of the Brooklyn Park police department said in an email. “We are continuing to investigate if he received help after the attacks.”

Both lawmakers in the attack were Democrats. Authorities have said the gunman had a list of additional targets that included dozens of elected officials and some abortion providers.

Boelter has a hearing in federal court next Friday, where he may enter a plea.

Mark Bruley, center, the police chief of Brooklyn Park, speaks with members of the community in Brooklyn Park on Friday, June 20, 2025. (Jenn Ackerman / The New York Times)

On Friday night, residents of the region gathered in a local high school, where law enforcement officers answered questions from the public and Minnesota leaders, including Gov. Tim Walz, reflected on the attacks.

Walz appeared emotional at times as he described how he was feeling, and how the community is feeling.

Gov. Tim Walz speaks to members of the community in Brooklyn Park on Friday, June 20, 2025. (Jenn Ackerman / The New York Times)

“It’s pretty hard, I think, for all of us,” he said, “when we’re running into people, and they’re asking how we’re doing. And my answer now is kind of day by day. This was a grievous wound that Minnesota experienced.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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Brewers fans who made the trip from Wisconsin for Milwaukee’s game against the Twins on Friday knew they were in for a treat. They just didn’t know how special it would be.

On a balmy night at Target Field, with a cool breeze swirling in from the northwest, the Milwaukee faithful not only got to see their team’s top pitching prospect on the mound, they watched him befuddle Minnesota hitters for six innings in a 17-6 Brewers victory in front of a split crowd announced at 28,011.

Jacob Misiorowski, a 6-foot-7 right-hander ranked MLB’s 16th-best pitching prospect, made his second major league start and took a no-hitter into the seventh inning.

Throwing a four-seam fastball that routinely tipped at just under 102 mph, and a slider that averaged 94 mph, Misiorowski, 23, didn’t allow a base-runner until Byron Buxton walked to start the seventh, and didn’t give up a hit until Matt Wallner followed with a home run into the porch in right field.

That ended the night for Misiorowksi (2-0), who left to a standing ovation from Brewers fans, and maybe a few Twins fans, as well. In his first start, Misiorowski threw five hitless innings in a victory over St. Louis, fanning five and waking four.

In the end, the Twins were outhit 19-1 until they teed off on Brewers first baseman/outfielder Jake Bauers for four runs on four hits in the ninth inning.

Christian Yelich hit two bases-clearing doubles and drove in seven runs, tying the Brewers franchise record career-high first reached April 15, 2019, against St. Louis, and Jackson Chourio and Joey Ortiz each drove in three runs as the Twins lost for the fifth time in six games walked and scored the Brewers’ first run on a fourth-inning sacrifice fly by William Contreras, then drove in the second with a double off Twins starter Joe Ryan with one out in the sixth.

Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Joe Ryan throws to the Milwaukee Brewers in the first inning of a baseball game Friday, June 20, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

That ended the night for Ryan, who was charged with three earned runs on three hits and three walks in 5⅓ innings. He struck out seven. Chourio scored the Brewers’ third run on Yelich’s single through a drawn-in infield off of reliever Danny Coulombe.

The Brewers broke open the game with a five-run seventh inning. Four consecutive singles and a walk off reliever Justin Topa made it 5-0 and spurred Twins manager Rocco Baldelli to replace Tope with left-hander Joey Wentz.

Wentz gave up Yelich’s triple down the third-base line made it 8-0.

Willi Castro and Ryan Jeffers hit the ball on the screws — fastball and slider, respectively — but Castro lined out to Caleb Durbin in the second inning and Jeffers lined out to left fielder Isaac Collins in the fifth. In the sixth, catcher Christian Vazquez hit the ball to the warning track in left-center but it was tracked down fairly easily by Collins.

Rhys Hoskins’ liner to left to start the fifth was the game’s first hit. He was later doubled up by first baseman Kody Clemens, who snagged a hard liner from Collins and, falling to his knees, touched the bag with his glove.

Leadoff hitter Sal Frelick started the sixth with a liner to right field and scored on Jackson Chourio’s double to right-center, which Wallner stopped from going to the wall but not in time to stop Frelick from making it 2-0.

Ryan was pulled for left-hander Danny Coulombe and Chourio, who took third on Byron Buxton’s throw home trying to get Frelick, scored on a single past a drawn-in infield by Yelich to make it 3-0. In the eighth inning, Yelich sent a line drive off the corner of the scoreboard in left-center of Wentz to make it 12-2.

Coulombe (2), Topa (4) and Wentz (5) combined to allow 11 runs in 2⅔ innings before closer Jhoan Duran was called on to clean up with two out in the eighth. Infielder Jonah Bride, making his fourth pitching appearance this month, worked the ninth and allowed five runs on a walk and five hits, including Yelich’s single to right for his eighth RBI.

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FARGO, N.D. — A newly unsealed federal criminal complaint accuses a North Dakota man of making threats of violence against a federal official in the wake of deadly political violence in Minnesota.

Charles Dalzell. (Courtesy of Grand Forks County Corrections / Forum News Service)

Charles Dalzell, 46, of St. Thomas, N.D., was arrested Monday after FBI agents reviewed an email Dalzell appeared to have sent last Sunday night to “J.P.” of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota. In the email, Dalzell referenced the the previous day’s assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman.

While the complaint does not identify the recipient of Dalzell’s emails beyond the initials, “J.P.” are the initials of Acting U.S. Attorney for North Dakota Jennifer Puhl.

“Now I’m going to be honest with you I don’t want this situation to end up like Minnesota over the weekend, do you,” Dalzell’s email read, according to the complaint. “I’m trying to get all of you to actually follow the law, not ignore me, not lie to me … that is what you all have done and this makes me wonder if these bad situations are really what you want or do you hope that I flip out and end up dead by a police officer?”

Dalzell allegedly claimed in the email that he was owed money from a court victory and police were trying to silence him so public officials could engage in corruption. He also claimed federal elected officials were ignoring his pleas for help.

“This had god dam better get fixed Monday morning which is tomorrow because I want to avoid anymore problems and don’t want North Dakota to end up like Minnesota … I’ll be honest I’m extremely pissed off and before you people push me into one of those situations with no way out except death or prison the law and the rules and the constitution better get followed,” Dalzell’s email read, according to the complaint.

According to investigators, in a February 2024 email to the U.S. Attorney’s Office describing a legal challenge he was facing over some property, Dalzell said, “I’m on the very very edge of flipping the f— out.”

“There’s a word that starts with a V and ends with a T and kinda sounds like violin and that is where this is heading if I don’t get some help,” that email said. The 2024 email, the complaint noted, was signed “Chuck Miller,” but when FBI agents interviewed Dalzell about the email, he acknowledged he sent it and said, “what goes around comes around.”

Dalzell also told agents, who warned him the 2024 email was borderline threatening, that “if he wanted to go shoot up a place he would not advertise it.”

Sunday’s email from Dalzell to “J.P.” also mentions multiple public officials and a judge by name, and that their “provoking” him was “not going to be tolerated,” the complaint said.

According to the FBI’s affidavit to the court, Dalzell sent another email to “J.P.” around noon Monday, saying it was “shocking” that North Dakota elected officials “ignore your job like it doesn’t matter,” allowing a “corrupt” judge and “(expletive deleted) governor” to violate his rights. The governor was not identified.

The affidavit said there is probable cause to believe Dalzell violated federal laws against transmitting interstate threats to injure others, and threatened to “assault, kidnap, or murder a United States Official.”

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MILWAUKEE – River Falls’ one-player advantage turned out to be no edge at all.

Top-seeded Pewaukee snapped a 1-all tie with a pair of short-handed goals in the final 10 minutes for a 3-1 victory over the Wildcats on Friday in the Division 2 semifinals of the Wisconsin girls state high school soccer tournament.

River Falls, the No .4 seed, led 1-0 at the half on a goal by Olivia Doerre, who rebounded her own penalty kick and punched it in lower right for her 20th goal of the season.

Pewaukee drew even just 27 seconds into the second half on an unassisted goal by Hannah Sorkness.

The Pirates, whose eight losses were the misleading result of a rugged non-conference schedule, dominated much of the second half and missed several scoring opportunities.

“I think the momentum definitely shifted to them,” Doerre said. “But, I’m a competitor. I really thought we could have come back. A couple times I think we could have taken it, but they just came out on top. They’re a really good team.”

With just under 12 minutes remaining, Pewaukee’s Alex Burkemper was sent off with a red card, seeming to provide the Wildcats with an opportunity to notch their first state tournament victory.

“You look at the first two or three minutes, and we had a couple chances,” River Falls coach Charles Conley said. “I thought, OK, this may play in our favor and it’s just going to wear them out more. I really did think we’d get to overtime at that point.”

But at 71:57 on the clock, Pewaukee’s Ella Opie lofted a free kick from 30 yards out just over the outstretched arms of goalie Neva Espanet and under the crossbar to put the Pirates up 2-1.

Four minutes later, Pewaukee’s Elli Bennett gathered in a centering pass from the right side and found the back of the net to make it 3-1.

“Give a lot of credit to Pewaukee,” Conley said. “I think they were a better team. We played hard for 75 minutes, or whatever it was, but when they lost a player … it kind of lit a fire under them and gave them the extra spark that they needed.”

Pewaukee, ranked fifth in Division 2 in the final state coaches poll, outshot the Wildcats 17-6, including 12-4 in the second half. River Falls missed several early opportunities, including a 4-1 edge in corner kicks in the first half.

Pewaukee coach Sean Sullivan said being down a player actually seemed to benefit his team.

“She’s one of our best players. She holds down the middle of our field. It was a huge loss,” Sullivan said. “We just had to be focused. We changed the formation a little bit to get a little more defensive-minded, but that opened our wings … and with one less player, that actually made it a little easier.”

River Falls (13-7-2), the third-place finisher in the Big River Conference and ranked No. 7 in Division 2, dropped to 0-4 in four state tournament appearances.

“I think they outplayed us in many facets, but we hung on as long as we could,” Conley said. “But I think it was just a matter of time before they got that second one.”

The Wildcats lost in the Division 2 semifinals last season, 3-0, to eventual champion Oregon. River Falls also lost their opener in Division 2 in 2018 and Division 1 in 2011.

Pewaukee (13-8) advanced to Saturday’s title game against the winner of Brookfield Central and Sauk Prairie.

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