Vance Boelter, who allegedly shot Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband, Mark Hortman, on June 14, 2025, studied at Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas.

Before Vance Boelter was accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker, he had an active, even grandiose, religious life.

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