Boelter — a 57-year-old married dad of five accused of murdering Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband and trying to assassinate Dem state Sen. Mark Hoffman and his wife early Saturday — gave few hints in his childhood of the seeming religious radicalization he would undergo. One of five siblings, he seemed to have shared his family’s love for sports and was listed as captain of the basketball team and a member of the baseball and football teams, as well the chorus, in the yearbook. He was later “ordained” in 1993 after studying at the Dallas-based Christ for the Nations Institute and said he had made several overseas trips seeking out “militant Islamists” and persuading them “violence wasn’t the answer,” according to a biography on the now-defunct website for his nonprofit, Revoformation, seen by the Washington Post.
Author: Steven Vago, Anthony Blair
Published at: 2025-06-17 21:44:02
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