Minnesota politician shot and killed, another injured in 'politically motivated assassination'

One Minnesota lawmaker and her spouse were fatally changeable and a 2nd lawmaker and his spouse were injured successful abstracted "politically motivated" shootings astatine their homes successful eastbound Minnesota, officials said Saturday.

The suspect, who authorities said were impersonating instrumentality enforcement and wore a badge to summation entree the legislators' homes, remained astatine ample and is believed to beryllium connected ft arsenic a large-scale hunt was ongoing.

Gov. Tim Walz said astatine a quality league that the early-morning onslaught "appears to beryllium a politically motivated assassination." He identified the slain lawmaker arsenic authorities Rep. Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn Park and her husband, Mark, portion authorities Sen. John Hoffman of Champlin and his wife, Yvette, were severely injured.

Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman successful 2023.Abbie Parr / AP

The Hoffmans remained hospitalized and their conditions were not instantly available. Both lawmakers were members of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party and their respective homes are located astir 8 miles apart, successful the suburbs northbound of Minneapolis.

"This was an enactment of targeted governmental violence," Walz said. "Peaceful sermon is the instauration of our democracy. We don't settee our differences with unit oregon astatine gunpoint."

Authorities said constabulary responded to Hoffman's location successful Champlin astatine astir 2 a.m. connected a study of a shooting. Another telephone came successful astatine 3:35 a.m. astatine Hortman's home, wherever Brooklyn Park constabulary officers encountered an idiosyncratic who "immediately fired astatine them." They exchanged gunfire earlier the fishy fled, said Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Law enforcement officers stitchery successful effect to shooting successful Brooklyn Park, Minn. connected Saturday, June 14, 2025. Alex Kormann / Star Tribune via AP)

Officials said they located the suspect's vehicle, which had lights and sirens arsenic if it were a constabulary squad car, and recovered a "manifesto" wrong with the names of different lawmakers and officials.

"We person radical of involvement that we are looking for," authorities said.

President Donald Trump said Saturday greeting that helium was briefed connected the shooting and that Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI are assisting successful the investigation.

"They volition beryllium prosecuting anyone progressive to the fullest grade of the law," Trump said successful a statement. "Such horrific unit volition not beryllium tolerated successful the United States of America."

In a societal media post, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., called the shootings “a stunning enactment of violence.”

“I’m thankful for each the instrumentality enforcement who are responding successful existent time,” she wrote connected X. “My prayers are with the Hortman and Hoffman families. Both legislators are adjacent friends and devoted to their families and nationalist service.”

Earlier Saturday, Walz said connected X that helium was briefed astir the “targeted shootings,” and said the Minnesota Department of Public Safety and section instrumentality enforcement were connected the scene.

The Brooklyn Park Police Department issued a shelter-in-place alert for an country surrounding the Edinburgh Golf Course Saturday greeting successful its quest for a suspect, NBC affiliate KARE 11 reported.