Lawmaker Shot 9 Times Is Out of the Hospital

Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, who was shot nine times by a gunman posing as a police officer, is out of the hospital and is now recovering in a transitional care unit, his family said. "John has been moved to a rehab facility, but still has a long road to recovery ahead," the family said in a statement Monday night. The family released a photo showing a smiling Hoffman giving a thumbs-up while standing with a suitcase on rollers, ready to leave the hospital, the AP reports. Hoffman will be in an acute care facility for several weeks and will undergo multiple surgeries in the months ahead, reports KARE11.

• Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were awakened around 2am. on June 14 by a man pounding on the door of their home in the Minneapolis suburb of Champlin, who said he was a police officer. According to an FBI agent's affidavit, security video showed the suspect, Vance Boelter, at the door wearing a black tactical vest and holding a flashlight. He was wearing a flesh-colored mask that covered his entire head.
• Yvette Hoffman told investigators they opened the door, and when they spotted the mask, they realized that the man was not a police officer. He then said something like "this is a robbery."" The senator then lunged at the gunman and was shot nine times. Yvette Hoffman was hit eight times before she could shut the door. Their adult daughter, Hope, was there but was not injured and called 911.
• Boelter is accused of going to the homes of two other lawmakers in a vehicle altered to resemble a squad car, without making contact with them, before going to the home of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in nearby Brooklyn Park. He allegedly killed both of them and wounded their dog so seriously that he had to be euthanized.
• Yvette Hoffman was released from the hospital a few days after the attacks. Former President Joe Biden visited the senator in the hospital when he was in town for the Hortmans' funeral.
• Boelter, who remains jailed without bail, is charged in federal and state court with murder and attempted murder. At a hearing Thursday, Boelter said he was "looking forward to the facts about the 14th coming out."