Becker’s Freedom Days parade last weekend had fewer floats due to the assassination and manhunt for Vance Boelter.

Due to lockdowns on most, if not all, state politicians last week because of the killing of State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, Rep. Shane Mekeland and Sen. Andrew Mathews declined to participate in the annual parade since the suspect, Vance Boelter of Green Isle, was still on the loose at the time of the parade.

Sunday evening, all could relax as authorities stated the manhunt was over and Boelter was in custody.

Boelter was the subject of a days-long man-hunt involving hundreds of local, state and federal law enforcement after the shocking deaths of Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. Officials say the couple were shot and killed in their Brooklyn Park home by a man impersonating a police officer.

Earlier that same morning, Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot at their home in nearby Champlin. In a statement shared with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Sunday night, Yvette said John “is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods.”

“He took nine bullet hits,” she wrote. “I took eight and we are both incredibly lucky to be alive.”

Boelter has been charged with the Hortmans’ murders as well as the shooting of the Hoffmans. Additonal charges are likely.

Boelter, 57, is in custody at Hennepin County Jail after he was arrested in a farm field near to his home in Green Isle, Sibley County, on Sunday evening following the largest manhunt in Minnesota history.

Mekeland and Mathews — and other local politicians — should be able to resume their attendance at any ongoing festivals including Big Lake’s Spud Fest parade on June 28.