Speaker 1: Top Ink Club Park Good even in the world is
the one and know the CEO Fortune and I'd like
to welcome you out to another episode of top Ink
World News. We got a news report, of course from
ABC News about two lawmakers that was actually shot. Our
Codonis goes out to the family from top of the
food chain.
Speaker 2: Ink.
Speaker 1: Let's get into this news report tonight top Ink World News.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 3: We're going to again give some updates and we will
be available to answer some questions once all the speakers
have had that opportunity to say a few words. So
with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Superintendent Drew
Evans of the BCA.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks, Commissioner, and today we are asking for
the public's help at this point in time and locating
advance Luther Bolter, who is a fifty seven year old
white male who's six feet one inches tall, two hundred
and twenty pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. I
know this name has been reported in the media so far,
and we are confirming as a person of interests that
we are looking to locate in relation to this. At
this time, we had ask the public, if you do
locate him to see him, to call nine one one.
Do not approach him. You should consider him armed and dangerous,
and you should call nine one one immediately with the information.
He was seen last this morning wearing light colored cowboy
hat that you can see up here in the clothing there,
with dark colored long sleeve colored shirt or coat like pants,
and carrying a dark bait. If you have any tips
about the whereabouts or any information that would be helpful,
you can call local police department, or you can call
our BCA tip line at eight seven seven nine nine
six six two two two or email us at BCA
dot at State mn US. We still don't know if
additional people are involved, but this individual is the one
that we're looking as a person of interest right now,
but there may be other people with him, and we
would like to speak to anybody that may have had
contact with him at any point in time. So please
connect with us, even if this has been some time
ago today, so that we can follow up and continue
to work together to keep our communities safe. And we,
as the Commissioner noted, we'll take some questions at the end,
but again we're seeking the assistance of the public and
locating him. I want to continue to say, as you see,
there's hundreds of law enforcement officers working on this right now,
for the partners that you see up here today as well,
from Champlain, a Champlain of Brooklyn Park, the State Patrol,
Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, FBI, ATF just a myriad of
partners working to try to locate this individual. And with
that I will turn it over to the mayor and
we'll answer questions at the end.
Speaker 5: So, Hi, my name is Hollis Winston, Mayor of the
city at Brooklyn Park. First, I want to extend my
prayers to the Hawkman family, but also to the Hortman
family as well. You know, there will come a time
down the road for healing within us as a community.
But right now, I think what's required as a calming
words and rhetoric, I want folks to make sure they
listen to the facts from credible sources like law enforcement,
but also to resist spreading misinformation, and then again asking
folks to listen to law enforcement in general when law
enforcement has those specific asks. In Brooklyn Park and Chaplain
and our surrounded communities in fact, the state, we're very
much family. The Hoffman and Hortman families are very much
our family, and so our prayers continuously go out to them.
And it's very much a time for us to come
together as a community and as a family, and I
think people need to see it that way. I want
to thank law enforcement. Governor Waltz, Commisioner Jacobson, Sheriff with FBI,
various counties, local law enforcement, even with our city of
Brooklyn Park. We're seeing a ton of local law enforcement
and county law enforcement just supporting our city overall, and
we want to thank them for doing that. They're dedicated
to keeping us safe and to securing justice. I would
say to support them again. If you have information, there'd
be information behind me, please share that information, and again
please look and listen for valid information and share that.
There will be a time to come together, and I
think specifically for the city of Brooklyn Park and within
our area, there'll be a time where we come together
when we work through what we're going through now as
a community. But I want to say this, you know
this individual did this to instill fear into our community,
but they also wanted to create a distinct and singular
point of view. When I listed all of that law
enforcement coming together, that was really us as a state
as a community from all different walks of life, coming
together to work on what's happening. And I received calls
from folks across the state from all different ethnicities and
communities as well, with an outpouring of support. So I
want people to understand that as a city, but as
a state, as a community, we're very much gonna come together.
We're going to see this through, and we're all going
to work together to figure this out. So again, I
want to thank our law enforcement and I want to
turn it over to the Mayor of Champlain Park.
Speaker 6: Good afternoon. My name is Ryan Sabus, Mayor of Champlain
and on behalf of the City of Champlain, our Police Department,
and our city Council. I want to extend a heartfelt
thoughts and prayers to Senator John Hoffman and Representator excuse me,
Representative Melissa Hortman and their families are deeply sat in
by the senseless act of violence, and our hearts are
with all those that have been affected. Our police department
is working close partnership with state, local, and federal agencies
to pursue this active investigation. We are incredibly grateful for
their swift and responsible, professional response. And for the collaboration
of commitment of every officer involved. We ask everyone to
stay attentive, report anything that feels concerning, and most of all,
continue to show kindness, respect and care for one another.
This is how we move forward together. And again, thank
you all for being here. And again, I think Mayor
Winston said it well that Hoffman family and Hortman family
are very much part of our communities, part of our
fabric of our communities, and we really wish the families
all the best.
Speaker 3: Thank you. As folks have said, will take a few questions,
Please don't forget to in the first question.
Speaker 2: As yourself media organization with the.
Speaker 3: Weather, and if you have a question for a specific.
Speaker 2: Individual, Paul, thanks, do you have a look at instead
of the complems?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: The question was do we have an update on Center
Hoffman's condition. We don't at this time. The last information
we had is that he was out of surgery and
was in stable condition at that time. But that certainly
experienced significant injury, so we'll have to continue to monitor that.
Speaker 2: Caroline, you said person of interest, so.
Speaker 4: Not a sess of course, she's a suspect one and
the same for this particular case. At this point in time,
you can say, suspect a.
Speaker 2: Bestort that screwcor You know, this guy is at least
as relating some sort of security company ord in its
on website that has a highly transparent Can you speak
to the level of knowledge this person we have about
using the gun or you know, it's different security tactics
that quite separate from it the whole versus walking.
Speaker 5: On the street.
Speaker 4: So the question was regarding the sophistication of the individual
based on reports that you owned a security company. I
certainly can't get in the details of the investigation. That'll
all be part of that and we'll explore all of that.
We're aware of the connections that you reference, and the
team will be dissecting that between the investigators Brooklyn Park
Police Department and all of the state, the local and
federal partners that are working on that. Certainly an individual
have some familiarity if that's the line of work that
they're in with some of the tactics that you noted,
but we'll be exploring that more fully.
Speaker 5: Question about the Jackie is that phototating today?
Speaker 4: That is photo is today?
Speaker 2: And is it the residents of either of our.
Speaker 4: Long the question is is it from a ring camera.
It's not. This is from a business, so this is
that a business location, and there we believe as noted
that we believe he's was still in at this time,
he was in the Twin Cities area, and that we
are continuing to work and follow up on that. We
believe he's working to potentially flee the area, and so
that's why we're sharing that with that information now so
that we can safely apprehend him.
Speaker 2: You have mentioned.
Speaker 3: Work.
Speaker 4: So the question is are we in contact with TSA.
We've been in contact with all of the federal authorities
that are relevant to this investigation. We will continue to
be The question is going to share the time and location.
This was this morning when this was taken. It was
in the city of Minneapolis. That's at this point. I
think all that we can share is we work to
follow up on that. Well, the question is there's surveillance
or ring camera. We do have various uh video from
different locations. I don't want to get in the specific
it's part of the active investigation, but there's video that
has been obtained by the investigators, so we can The
question is can we talk about some of the other
locations you know, because our teams are very active as
part of an active investigation, I can't talk about the specifics.
What I will tell you is the two locations you
noted in Minneapolis and in green Isle. They are related
to this investigation and the follow up that the teams
are doing.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna have one more question, a.
Speaker 4: Little more manifestel and motivating long motia here At this
point in time, it'd be premature. The question was is
the manifesto and the information that we have received as
their motivations. We are working diligently on that. There's certainly
some indications within that, but there's not specifics enough. We
have been this is a very active and fluid investigation
throughout the day as you've been waiting, and these teams
have been out working out in the field and they
have been gathering more documents and information. So it would
be pre for sure for me at this point to
really say exactly what the motivation might be from these writings,
but we will be continuing to work on that and
provide that information when we're able each other.
Speaker 2: Did this man know either for mint?
Speaker 4: The question is do they know each other in any capacity?
We are still exploring that there's certainly some overlap with
some you know, public meetings. I will say with Senator
Hoffman and the individual, but we don't know the nature
of the relationship or if they actually knew each other.