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.

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

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.

A police manhunt is underway in Minnesota after two state lawmakers and their spouses were shot overnight in a "politically motivated assassination," Gov. Tim Walz told reporters Saturday.

President Trump said that he had no plans to call Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota after a man assassinated a state lawmaker there and wounded another over the weekend, calling Mr. Walz “whacked out” and “a mess.”

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.

Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden took to social media to lambast Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz following last weekend's shootings.

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