Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “was always telling me China was the future, China knows how to get things done, China knows how to control their people,” accused assassin Vance Boelter told The

A Hennepin County grand jury upgraded charges against Boelter in an eight-count indictment that slapped him with first-degree premeditated murder charges.

If convicted, the charge of first-degree premeditated murder carries a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has secured a grand jury indictment against Vance Boelter, the man accused in the June 14 killing of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and the wounding of state Sen.

Vance Boelter, the man charged in the deadly Minnesota lawmaker shootings, pleaded not guilty in federal court last week. Nicole Kettwick, an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and managing partner at Brandt Kettwick Defense,