Minnesota House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot Saturday in their Brooklyn Park home, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife survived the assassin’s attack at their home in Champlin, in what Gov. Tim Walz said appeared to be a targeted act of political violence.
Authorities identified the suspect as 57-year-old Vance Boelter. A manhunt is underway to locate Boelter.
Officials said the suspect left a list of politicians at the scene. A person who has seen the list said it included several abortion rights supporters, including lawmakers.
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7:51 a.m. – Sen. Amy Klobuchar said authorities continue to believe the shooter is somewhere in the Midwest.
“We believe he’s somewhere in the vicinity and that they are going to find him,” she said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “But right now, everyone’s on edge here, because we know that this man will kill at a second. We also know that he is clearly off balance, that from the manifesto on some of his writings, some of the things that he has said recently, that he is someone that no one should mess with, except for law enforcement.”
Klobuchar also said that targeting people with ties to abortion rights may have been a motive of the shooter.
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