Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in politically motivated shootings early Saturday, Gov. Tim Walz said. Authorities have also identified a suspect who is still at large.

Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed; Sen. John Hoffman and his wife remain hospitalized after what Gov. Walz called a targeted political attack.

It has been reported that Boelter was in possession of a list of potential targets, many of them Democratic politicians, and it was reported on Monday that he went to the home of two other lawmakers in between his attacks at the Hoffman and Hortman homes.

A manhunt is underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer and had a list of possible targets, officials said.

Former NFL player, Jack Brewer, blasted Tim Walz after the death of a Minnesota lawmaker and called him "weak" and "emasculated."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reappointed the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of Minnesota state legislators to a workforce development board. Conservatives baselessly said that implicated Walz in the killing.

The United States has a long and grim history of political violence, from presidential assassinations to lynchings and violence aimed at Black people in

Vance Boelter was arrested for allegedly murdering Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, amid a manhunt. Boelter, posing as a police officer, also allegedly wounded another politician and had a target list.

Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot dead in what state governor Tim Walz described as a “politically motivated assassination”.Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park,