New Delhi, July 24 -- MINNEAPOLIS - John Hoffman addressed the courtroom on Wednesday as a man who survived the night of June 14, 2025, and has spent every day since reconsidering what ordinary life costs him now. The Minnesota state senator, shot in his home in the early hours of that morning, told the court that Vance Boelter had permanently changed his life. "Every ordinary, boring moment," he said, has been "forever altered by extraordinary violence."

Boelter, 59, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Minneapolis to two consecutive life sentences plus an additional 480 months - forty years - for the killings and attempted killings he carried out in the predawn hours of June 14, 2025. The targets were elected officials. The meth...