Walz once appointed Minnesota shooting suspect to advisory board. Here's context

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Vance Boelter, accused of shooting two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses in June 2025 (one couple died), was once appointed to an advisory board by Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

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Context
Because Boelter was originally appointed to the board in 2016 by former Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, Walz actually reappointed him in 2019 for a second term, which ended in January 2023. Boelter is reportedly not a Democrat himself, and Walz's office confirmed that the governor does not meet with prospective appointees prior to appointing them.

In mid-June 2025, a rumor began to spread that Vance Boelter, the accused shooter of two Minnesota Democratic state lawmakers and their spouses on June 14, had once been appointed a member of the Governor's Workforce Development Board by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz. One of the targeted couples died.

For example, this post on Facebook criticized the authorities for not releasing the alleged assassin's supposed manifesto and speculated the reason they hadn't was because Walz had political ties to Boelter

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-walz/

[marble falls]

1. In light of everything, it is a sad statement that we even have to discuss this one little canard that doesn't stand ...

... five minutes of casual scrutiny.

[Ocelot II]

2. People apply to be on the workforce board, like the many other state advisory boards.

The governor doesn't go looking for any particular people. It's comprised of 40+ people from business and government, who are unpaid volunteers. If you want to be on it you just send in an application. https://www.sos.mn.gov/boards-commissions/help-how-tos/how-to-apply-for-a-position. It's not a real government job, and although members of the legislature are assigned to work with these boards, you probably will never actually meet with or see the governor at all as part of the workforce board's occasional, part-time duties.