1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Top Ink Club Park. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,719 Speaker 2: Good evening, Ruds the one and know the CEO Fortune 3 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:12,759 reporting to you on top Ink Club podcast with top 4 00:00:12,839 --> 00:00:18,559 ink World News, and we have chilling updates with the 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,239 Minnesota shooting, of course, coming from our very own, our 6 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:27,480 lovely friends NBC News. Let's get into these updates. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: Breaking news now, federal officials are giving an update on 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,560 the arrest of the suspect in the Minnesota shootings. Let's listen, people, 9 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,439 Assassinations are rare. They strike at the very core of 10 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:43,799 our democracy. But the details of Belter's crime are even worse. 11 00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:49,039 They are truly chilling. It is no exaggeration to say 12 00:00:49,039 --> 00:00:53,079 that his crimes are the stuff of nightmares. Belter stocked 13 00:00:53,119 --> 00:00:57,880 his victims like prey. He went to their homes, held 14 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,079 them out as a police officer, and shot them in 15 00:01:02,159 --> 00:01:06,519 cold blood. Now, there's been a lot of information and 16 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:11,480 misinformation out there about Belter's crimes. We have filed a 17 00:01:11,519 --> 00:01:16,599 detailed twenty plage complaint, an affidavit that sets forth what 18 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,560 happened in this case. I'd like to share some of 19 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:24,120 that information with you now. In the early morning hours 20 00:01:24,159 --> 00:01:28,120 of June fourteenth, Belter went to the homes of four 21 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,959 Minnesota state politicians with the intent to kill them. Belter 22 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,040 first traveled to the home of Minnesota State Senator John 23 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:42,519 Hoffman in Champlin, Minnesota. Belter arrived at the senator's home 24 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,959 disguised as a police officer. He arrived in a black 25 00:01:48,079 --> 00:01:52,359 SUV with emergency lights turned on and with a license 26 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,519 plate that read police. Belter wore a black tactical vest 27 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,680 and body armor, carried a flashlight and a Bretta nine 28 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:08,719 milimeter handgun. He also wore a hyper realistic silicon mask. 29 00:02:13,759 --> 00:02:18,240 Senator Hoffman had a security camera. I've seen the footage 30 00:02:18,719 --> 00:02:22,680 from that camera and it is chilling. Belter knocked on 31 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:27,159 Senator Hoffman's front door and repeatedly shouted, this is the police. 32 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:32,560 Open the door. Senator Hoffman and his white Yvette came 33 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:35,800 to the door. When they opened the door, Belter shined 34 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,360 the flashlight in their faces and said there had been 35 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,639 a shooting reported in the house. Belter asked if they 36 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,360 had any weapons. When Belter lowered his flashlight, which he 37 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,520 had shined in their face, they realized that he was 38 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,000 not a police officer. They shouted out, you're not a cop, 39 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,759 You're not a police officer. Belter then announced this is 40 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,479 a robbery and forced himself into their home. When Senator 41 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:04,599 Hoffman attempted to push Belter out and stop him from 42 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,400 entering his home, Belter shot him repeatedly. Belter then shot 43 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:14,599 miss Hoffman repeatedly. Belter fled the scene and the Hoffman's 44 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:19,599 daughter called nine to one one. Unfortunately, the Hoffman survived, 45 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:27,039 although they remained hospitalized. After shooting Senator Hoffman and his wife, 46 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,479 Belter traveled to the home of another Minnesota state representative 47 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:37,719 in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Video surveillance showed that Belter rang 48 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,280 the doorbell at the state representative's house at approximately two 49 00:03:41,439 --> 00:03:46,080 twenty four am on Friday night. Again, he was dressed 50 00:03:46,719 --> 00:03:50,039 as a law enforcement officer, wearing a tactical vest and 51 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,439 body armor, carrying a handgun and a flashlight, and wearing 52 00:03:54,479 --> 00:03:59,719 that same hyper realistic silicon mask. Again, the images, as 53 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:04,439 you can on the screen, are haunting. U Fortunately, the 54 00:04:04,479 --> 00:04:08,280 state representative was not home, she and her family were 55 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:14,400 gone on vacation, and so Belter left. Belter then traveled 56 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,360 to the home of a Minnesota state senator who lived 57 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,879 in New Hope, Minnesota. He parked in the street in 58 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:26,480 that same black SUV with the police license plate. At 59 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:31,040 about two thirty six am on Friday night, after learning 60 00:04:31,079 --> 00:04:34,519 of the shooting of Senator Hoffman, New Hope police dispatched 61 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,399 an officer to conduct a wellness check on the state senator, 62 00:04:38,439 --> 00:04:41,519 who lived in New Hope. When the New Hope officer 63 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:47,639 arrived at the scene, she saw Belter's black SUV parked 64 00:04:48,399 --> 00:04:52,319 down the block with the lights on. The New Hope 65 00:04:52,319 --> 00:04:55,519 police officer believed that Belter was a police officer who 66 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,439 had been dispatched to the scene to check on the 67 00:04:58,439 --> 00:05:01,759 status of the state senator. The New Whole police officer 68 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,319 pulled up next to Belter in his car, rolled down 69 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,920 her window, and attempted to speak with him. Belter did 70 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,480 not respond, according to the officer, he just sat there 71 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:16,959 and stared straight ahead. So the New Hoole police officer, 72 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,279 who had been dispatched to the scene, proceeded to the 73 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,279 state senator's home and she waited for other law enforcement 74 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,680 to arrive. When they did. By the time they did, 75 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:36,199 Belter had left the scene. Belter then traveled to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, 76 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:40,959 in the home of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman. At 77 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:45,399 approximately three point thirty am, Belter arrived at Representative Hortman's 78 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:49,199 house in his black SUV with the police license plates. 79 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,759 He parked in the driveway and left the emergency lights 80 00:05:53,959 --> 00:05:57,079 on his SUV flashing as if he was a police officer. 81 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,800 Belter approached Representative hort home again dressed as a police officer, 82 00:06:03,319 --> 00:06:06,519 wearing the tactical vest and body armor and wearing that 83 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,759 hyper realistic mask. He was armed and carrying a flashlight 84 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,519 before he entered the home. Two Brooklyn Park Police officers 85 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:19,680 arrived at the scene. They too had been dispatched to 86 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:24,399 check on Senator and Representative Hortman after learning of the 87 00:06:24,399 --> 00:06:28,560 shooting of Senator Hoffman. When they arrived at the scene, 88 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:34,079 they saw Belter's black SUV parked in the driveway with 89 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,399 the emergency lights flashing, and they saw Belter standing in 90 00:06:38,399 --> 00:06:42,959 front of the house, several feet from the door. When 91 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,279 Belter saw the officers get out of the car, he 92 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,560 drew his weapon and began firing. He rushed into the 93 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,240 house through the front door, firing into it. He repeatedly 94 00:06:55,279 --> 00:07:00,000 fired into the house, and when he entered, he murdered 95 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:04,680 Representative Portman and her husband Mark. The Brooklyn Park Police 96 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:10,720 officers fired at bel Belter as he rushed into the home, 97 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:14,199 but he escaped into the home and out the back. 98 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:21,639 Officers recovered Belter's nine milimeter Bretta, along with the body 99 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,240 armour and the mask behind the home along his path 100 00:07:25,279 --> 00:07:28,600 of flight when he fled on foot. They later searched 101 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,839 Belter's car, where they found five more firearms, including Astault 102 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:39,079 style rifles, and a large quantity of ammunition. Belter also 103 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,800 had in his car notebooks containing a list of more 104 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,439 than forty five Minnesota state and federal elected officials, including 105 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:58,120 Representative Portman. Now Belter planned his attack carefully. He researched 106 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,720 his family, his victims and their families. He used the 107 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,519 Internet and other tools to find their addresses and names 108 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:09,399 in the names of their family members, He conducted surveillance 109 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,000 of their homes and took notes about the location of 110 00:08:13,079 --> 00:08:17,839 their homes. He also prepared in other ways. He concealed 111 00:08:17,879 --> 00:08:22,079 himself as a police officer, outfitting his black SUV with 112 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:26,680 police lights and a police license plate, wearing a black 113 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,279 tactical vest and body armor, carrying a police flashlight and 114 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:39,240 a handgun, and of course, he wore that hyperrealistic silicone 115 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:45,840 mask I seen other surveillance videos. The video of his 116 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,600 arrival and shooting of Senator Hoffman is truly chilling. Again, 117 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:53,559 it's no exaggeration to say this is the stuff of nightmares. 118 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:03,879 There's a photo of firearms found in Belter's abandoned suv. 119 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:12,480 Based on these crimes, we brought a federal complaint charging 120 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,240 Beltner with an array of federal charges. Counts one and 121 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,279 two charge him with stocking. Count one charges him with 122 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:25,039 stocking Representative Melissa Hortman using interstate facilities, and that's Title 123 00:09:25,039 --> 00:09:28,519 eighteen United States Go twenty two to sixty one. The 124 00:09:28,519 --> 00:09:34,919 statutory penalties there are life in prison. Count two, similarly 125 00:09:35,519 --> 00:09:40,039 content is chargessm with stocking State Senator John Hoffman using 126 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,080 interstate facilities. The statutory the maximum penalty of that count 127 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:49,159 is twenty years in prison. Counts three and four charge 128 00:09:49,159 --> 00:09:56,480 Belter with the murder of Melissa and of the Hortman's 129 00:09:56,919 --> 00:10:01,440 using a firearm violation of eight Usc. Nine twenty four 130 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:07,960 j count. Then these are punishable by a term of 131 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:12,840 life imprisonment or even death. And Counts five and six 132 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:17,600 charge him with shooting the Hertman's and the Hoffman's using 133 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,360 a firearm, and both of those towns also carry a 134 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,639 maximum sentence of life in prison. Now, before I finished 135 00:10:24,639 --> 00:10:26,159 my remarks, I want to say a little bit about 136 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,000 law enforcement and the manhunt that we've heard about the 137 00:10:29,039 --> 00:10:33,679 last two days. Over the fast forty eight hours, federal, state, 138 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,840 and local law enforcement from throughout the state of Minnesota 139 00:10:37,159 --> 00:10:41,399 have worked together together to carry out the largest manhunt 140 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,960 in Minnesota history. Now, a lot has been said about 141 00:10:46,039 --> 00:10:50,159 law enforcement in recent weeks, but make no mistake, the 142 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:53,480 men and women of our federal, state, and local law 143 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,360 enforcement put their lives at risk and on the lie 144 00:10:57,879 --> 00:11:01,080 on the line to keep Minnesota safe. HM. They work 145 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,639 tirelessly day and night to make sure that the tragic 146 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:08,799 events of Friday night end it without further violence or bloodshed. 147 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:12,000 We owe them all a debt of gratitude and they 148 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,559 will forever have my respect in admiration.