Minnesota state Senator John Hoffman leaves hospital after being shot 9 times by man posing as officer



Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, who was shot nine times by a gunman posing as a police officer who authorities say went on to kill another lawmaker, 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.

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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.

Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman gives a thumbs up as he was moved from the hospital to a rehabilitation facility AP
The suspect, Vance Boelter, showed up at Sen. Hoffman’s family home posing as a police officer before firing nine shots at the state senator Getty Images

Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were awakened around 2 a.m. 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.

Hoffman’s wife, Yvette, was hit eight times before she could shut the door on the shooter MelissaHortman/Facebook
Vance Boelter impersonated a police officer by wearing a flesh-colored mask and a tactical vest FBI
Boelter was arrested on June 15, 2025, by the Ramsey County Sheriffs HANDOUT/RAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

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.

The chief federal prosecutor for Minnesota has called the lawmaker’s killing an assassination.

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.

Gov. Tim Walz walks alongside former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman’s casket at her funeral service on June 28, 2025 via REUTERS
Pallbearers carry the casket of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hoffman Getty Images

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.”

Prosecutors have declined to speculate on a motive. Friends have described him as an evangelical Christian with politically conservative views.

It will be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi to decide whether to seek the federal death penalty. Minnesota abolished its state death penalty in 1911.


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