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.

He’s charged in the slaying of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the shooting of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.

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,