Wendy Thomas knew Minnesota’s largest-ever dragnet was trained on her neighbor, Vance Luther Boelter, the suspect in a crime that shocked Minnesota and the nation.
“I thought he was long gone,” Thomas said, as police searched for Boelter, the man accused of ambushing two state lawmakers at their suburban Minneapolis homes.
State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, survived multiple gunshot wounds early on June 14.
A tip from Thomas led police to Boelter near his home, even though she doubted her own eyes in the fading evening light of June 15….