Boelter’s federal defender, Manny Atwal, indicated ahead of the arraignment that he would plead not guilty to his counts. According to charging documents, Boelter drove an SUV designed to look like a police cruiser and donned a hyper-realistic mask and law enforcement uniform during the gunfire.

Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting to death a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and attempting to murder another and his wife, pleaded not guilty on Thursday morning