Missed opportunities: How law enforcement failures allowed Vance Boelter to evade capture for 43 hours
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Jeff Day, Ellie Lin
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A Minnesota Star Tribune investigation reveals that law enforcement missed several opportunities to apprehend Vance Boelter after he attacked Sen. John Hoffman and his family. The State Patrol denied initial requests to launch a helicopter, and key decisions and mistaken assumptions gave Boelter a 43-hour head start. While some agencies showed quick thinking that may have prevented more deaths, the reconstruction exposes critical failures in the law enforcement response across the Twin Cities.
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The State Patrol denied initial calls to launch a helicopter to help find the suspect in the minutes after Sen. John Hoffman and his family were attacked.
A minute-by-minute reconstruction shows how police scrambled to protect lawmakers across the Twin Cities even as key decisions and mistaken assumptions gave Boelter a head start.
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