Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park, a city north of Minneapolis, on Saturday morning by a man dressed as a police officer, authorities said. Police are still searching for the suspect, named by the FBI as 57-year-old Vance Boelter, who escaped following a shootout with officers.

Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said “we will be in a position where we’ll be able to develop the motivation behind these attacks and we’ll be able to provide more information as this unfolds.

The suspect built a scattered career ranging from food to retailing to private security to pastoring, public records and his online postings show.

Authorities are searching for Vance Boelter in connection with the shootings of Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and state Sen. John Hoffman.

Minnesota authorities are searching for Vance Luther Boelter, the suspect in Minneapolis shootings that killed one state lawmaker and wounded another.

A manhunt was under way on Saturday for Vance Luther Boelter, 57, who police said is a suspect in the killing of Democratic Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the shooting of State Senator John Hoffman and his wife.

The Minnesota Star Tribune has obtained audio of the dispatches, which capture the dramatic attempts to save them, and the ongoing threat to first responders, who at one point note that the shooter is still in Hortman’s home.

The Minnesota State Patrol urged the public not to attend planned demonstrations across the state Saturday “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a post on X, following [the shootings of two s

State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the House’s Democratic leader and former speaker, was shot to death early Saturday.