The Minnesota Star Tribune found that the State Patrol denied initial calls to launch a helicopter to help find the suspect in the minutes after Sen. Hoffman and his family were attacked, one of several missed opportunities that could have prevented the Hortman killings or stopped Boelter’s escape.
A minute-by-minute reconstruction shows how police scrambled to protect lawmakers across the Twin Cities even as key decisions and mistaken assumptions gave Boelter a head start.
