On Saturday, two state MPs from Minnesota were locked in their homes, which Governor Tim Walz called an attempt to “politically motivated”. The attacks killed a politician and the other was seriously injured.

The suspected, Vance Luther Boleter has been taken into custody after being found in rural woodland during a huge manhunt. He has been accused of killing two cases of killing second degree and two cases of attempt of second degree.

State representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot dead in her house.

He served at the Minnesota House of Representatives for 20 years, and was the speaker of the Chamber from 2019 to 2025.

Under his tenure, Minnesota Democrats passed various types of liberal laws, including expansion of abortion rights and entertaining marijuana.

She was also known for working in the corridor. In its final votes before the attack, biased to support a bill provision with Republican that would make the state’s undivided population disqualified to the state’s low -income healthcare program.

The state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yatete, were also shot and injured several times, but survived. He had surgery.

Both MPs are Democrats.

Mrs. Hoffman shared a statement on social media after the incident, stating that she and her husband were “incredibly lucky” and they collided with a total of 17 bullets.

Mrs. Hoffman wrote, “John is currently doing many surgery and is close every hour to get out of the forest.”

He expressed sympathy to the loss of his colleagues at the State House.

He wrote, “We tickled and destroyed the loss of Melissa and Mark. We have no words. There is never any place for such political hatred,” he wrote.

Law enforcement has confirmed that Brooklyn Park and Champalin, Minnesota cities were attacked in early Saturdays.

Superintendent of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Examination, Drew Evans said that the police received a call on an incident at Hoffman House in Champlin at 02:00 local time (03:00 EDT; 07:00 GMT).

Another call to the police came at 03:35, when the officers were checking at the Hortman’s house nearby at Brooklyn Park.

The police came to know what felt like an emergency vehicle parked at home with emergency lights.

After coming out of the house, a police officer looked like a police officer, who immediately set the officers on fire, returned to the house, then ran away on foot.

Brooklyn Park Police chief Mark Broli stated that the suspect was “wearing a vest with” a tusser, other equipment, a vest with a badge “as law enforcement” to manipulate his way in the house “.

The attacks condemned the political spectrum. President Donald Trump said “such horrific violence will not be tolerated”.

Meanwhile, American senator Amy Clobuhar, a Minnesota Democrat, called it “everything attacked everything as a democracy”.

The police identified the suspect as 57 -year -old Mr. Bublter. He did not give details on a possible purpose.

Mr. Boelter, a former political appointment, was once a member of the same State Workforce Development Board as Hoffman.

“We don’t know the nature of the relationship or if they really knew each other,” said Evans.

Investigators reportedly found a list of 70 “goals”, which included the names of the state democratic politicians, in a vehicle by the suspect in a vehicle for murder.

According to local media, Walz, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, two American senators of Minnesota, Amy Clobuhar and Tina Smith, and State Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison were on the hit list.

The location for employed paternity, which provides miscarriage and contraceptive, was also on the list, a person familiar with the investigation told the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Supt Evans told reporters that he would not describe the notebook found in the car as a “manifesto” because it was not “a book on all kinds of ideology and writing”.

Mr. Boelter is a security contractor and religious missionary who has worked in Africa and Middle East according to an online CV.

According to Facebook photos once, he campaigned as a pastor in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He often traveled to the nation, indicating the post from his linked -in account.

An online video of two years ago showed him addressing a congregation, stating that he had a wife and five children.

According to his online profile, he also worked in Minnesota for a major food distributor, a feature store chain and two funeral services businesses.

According to the local TV affiliated KTTC, Mr. Bublter’s only criminal history in Minnesota was for traffic tickets, including fast and parking violations.

He gave a disturbing message to friends at a residence in Miniapolis, where he had rented a room and will stay one or two nights a week, Minnesota Star Tribune Report,

Mr. Boleter said: “I am going for a while. May be dead soon, so I just want to tell you that I love you guys and I wish it would not have gone like this.”

On Sunday night, police said that after receiving this information to Mr. Boleter, he found that he was seen in the area of ​​Green Isle, which was not away from his house.

Officials called the two -day discovery “the biggest manhunt in the history of the state”, in which many law enforcement agencies work together to find it.

Mr. Boelter was mostly arrested in a rural area with farm, fields and small wood, and “without any use of force” or police was taken into custody “.

Police said that when he was arrested, he was armed, but did not give much information about the type of weapons present.

Supta Evans said that Mr. Boelter’s arrest brought “a sense of relief” to the communities and MPs who were in the list of suspects’ goals.

He also said that law enforcement believes that the suspect worked alone and was not part of a broad network.

Officials also condemned the copying of Mr. Boelter of a police officer while carrying out the attacks, saying that “he exploited the trust, to represent our uniform”.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz also followed a petition for citizenship, urged people “hand join” and “Common Ground Find”.

“The unimaginable works of a person have changed the state of Minnesota,” he said.

“It may not be ideal. This is not the way we deal with our political differences.”

Prior to the arrest of Mr. Boelter, his wife was detained in a traffic stop with three relatives in a car in a car of more than 100 miles on Saturday morning, but was released on Saturday morning, but after questioning.

Mr. Boelter is scheduled to appear in court in Minianpolis at 13:30 local time (14:30 edt; 18:30 GMT) on Monday.