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"It clearly looks like a political assassination, and there's just no room for that in this country," GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt, the former attorney general of Missouri, said of the Minnesota shooting.

Armed FBI agents search for an active shooter, sweeping a neighborhood adjacent to the home of Minnesota DFL State Representative Melissa Hortman, in Brooklyn Park, Minn., Saturday, June 14, 2025.

A federal prosecutor said Vance Boelter went to the homes of four politicians in a deadly rampage in Minnesota on Saturday.

Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. He appeared in federal court after being charged with murder.

And those are just some examples of political violence from the past year alone. In 2021, Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were about to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

Thompson, the acting U.S. attorney, said political assassinations are rare. “But the details of Boelter’s crime are even worse,” Thompson said. “They are truly chilling.