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Minnesota shooting suspect started as a frustrated idealist, his writings show

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65% Informative

Vance Boelter was "devout, and sincere in his beliefs," a web design firm CEO says.

He was "clearly very religious, very passionate," Charlie Kalech says.

Boetter is charged with killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounding a state senator.

Boentter 's writings show he was preoccupied with societal problems and how he could fix them for greater good.

One slide described how his own lived experience informed his idea, referring to him in the third person: "several times in his life Vance Boelter was the first person on the scene of very bad head on car accidents" The slide said he was able to help "without fear of doing something wrong" because he was "protected" by Good Samaritan law which could and should be applied to food waste.

"At least in his mind and on paper, he was solving problems," Kalech said.

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70

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79

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informal

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English

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46

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