A grand jury upgraded murder charges for the suspect accused of carrying out the targeted shootings of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses.
Vance Boelter was indicted by a federal grand jury last month on six counts of stalking, murder through the use of a firearm, and other charges related to the murder of Minnesota Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, along with wounding Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
Boelter also faces state charges, with prosecutors at the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office initially charging him with two counts of intentional second-degree murder, not premeditated, and two counts of attempted murder on June 14…