Police and federal agents swarmed the Minnesota farm community after discovering a car and a hat belonging to suspected assassin Vance Boelter — ordering residents to stay indoors and lock their

State and local law enforcement agencies are investigating “an ongoing situation involving targeted shootings” in the Minneapolis suburbs of Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said in a post on X Saturday morning.

BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated assassination. A second lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded.

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed Saturday, while state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were also shot.

Melissa Hortman' s influence at the Minnesota Capitol and her power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply divided Legislature were a far cry from her job as a teenager making chili-cheese burritos and overshadowed her volunteer work training service dogs for veterans.

Minnesota’s House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated assassination, Gov. Tim Walz announced Saturday. A second lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded.

Campaign efforts come as Democrats hold a one-seat majority in the Minnesota Senate, while control of the Minnesota House is evenly split. In the 2024 House race, Rep. Dan Wolgamott, DFL-St. Cloud, narrowly won his reelection bid with 50.36% of the vote while his opponent, Republican Sue Ek, received 49.40%.

But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the 2022 elections, when Democrats took control of state