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.

One year before they would be shot to death in what Minnesota's governor is calling a targeted political assassination, state Rep. Melissa Hortman posted a tribute to her husband, Mark, on her Facebook page.

Two Minnesota state politicians have been the victims of a shooting, with one dead and the other injured. Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed this morning, in an incident which Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has labelled as a “politically motivated assassination”.

A manhunt is underway after a US politician and her husband were shot and killed in their home in a "politically motivated assassination" - and another politician and his wife were also shot. Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed at their homes, Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, confirmed.

Hortman and her husband were killed and Hoffman and his wife injured in what officials called "targeted political violence".

Dozens of Minnesota Democrats were on a target list written by the gunman who allegedly shot and killed a state representative and shot and wounded a state senator in a targeted act of violence early Saturday,

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz held a press conference on the assassination of two democratic Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses who were shot Saturday. Walz said it was likely a targeted political attack by a suspect impersonating a police officer.

A manhunt is under way for Vance Luther Boelter after two Democratic state politicians were shot, leaving Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband dead.

A manhunt is underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer and had a list of possible targets, officials said.