Live updates: Manhunt continues for suspect in shootings of Minnesota lawmakers
A sprawling manhunt continued into early Sunday for Vance Luther Boelter, the suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses on Saturday. Gov. Tim Walz (D) said the attacks appeared to be 'an act of targeted political violence.' Melissa Hortman, a top Democrat in the Minnesota House of Representatives, and her husband, Mark, were killed in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, while Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were injured in a separate attack in the Minneapolis suburb of Champlin. A $50,000 FBI reward has been offered for information on Boelter, 57, a White man with security experience. Officers found a list featuring Democrats supporting abortion rights and other liberal causes in a vehicle used by the suspect.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said that state flags will fly at half-staff to honor and remember veteran state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D), who was killed along with her husband in a shooting that Walz had earlier described as an 'act of political violence.'
'She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed,' he wrote on X.
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