A lifelong friend of the alleged Minnesota gunman says Vance Boelter had been struggling to find work and was wrestling with a “darkness that was inside of him” at the time of the shootings. But David Carlson told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his friend's involvement was as surprising as “getting struck by lightning.” Carlson said Boelter did not hold back when it came to his distaste for Democrats but he never seemed threatening or talked to him about any of the officials who were targeted. The FBI said Boelter “made lists containing the names and home addresses of many Minnesota public officials, mostly or all Democrats.”
