What we know about the attack on two legislators in Minnesota

On Saturday, two legislators from Minnesota were shot in their homes, as the ruler Tim and Alz described as an attempt to “a political assassination”. The attacks left one political dead and were seriously injured.

The suspect was detained, and Vans Luther Powlter, after he was found in the rural forests during a huge chase. He was charged with the two charges of second -degree murder and two second -class charges that tried to kill.

The governor said the state actress Melissa Hortmann and her husband Mark were killed in their home.

She had served in the House of Representatives in Minnesota for 20 years, and she was the president of the Chamber from 2019 to 2025.

Under its jurisdiction, Democrats in Minnesota issued a variety of liberal legislation that included the expansion of abortion and legitimacy to entertainment marijuana.

She was also known for working across the corridor. In one of her final votes before the attack, she stood with the Republicans to support an invoice clause that would make the state -noted residents not qualified for the low -income health care program.

Senator John Hoffman and his wife Evitt were also shot several times and were injured, but they survived. They underwent surgery.

Both legislators are democrats.

Mrs. Hoffman shared a statement on social media after the accident, saying that she and her husband were “incredibly lucky to be alive” after they had a total of 17 bullets.

“John bears many surgeries at the present time, which is closer every hour to get out of the forest,” said Ms. Hoffmann.

She also expressed sympathy for her colleagues losing the state’s home.

“We were exposed and destroyed from the loss of Melissa and Mark. We have no words. There is never a place for this type of political hatred,” she wrote.

The application of the law confirmed that the attacks took place in the early hours of Saturday in the cities of Brooklyn and Champlin, Minnesota.

Drew Evans, the supervisor of the Minnesota Criminal Fear Office, said that the police received a call at 02:00 local time (03:00 EST; 07:00 GMT) about an accident at Hoffman’s house in Chambal.

Another invitation to the police came at 03:35, when the officers were examining the Hortman house, near Brooklyn Park.

The police discovered what looks like an emergency vehicle parked at home with the lights of emergency lights.

The exit from the house was a person like a police officer, opened fire immediately on the officers, returned to the house, then fled on foot.

“The suspect was” wearing a jacket with Tasser, other equipment, a badge “pretending to be the application of the law” in order to manipulate their way home. “

The attacks sparked condemnation from all over the political spectrum. “It will not be tolerated with such horrific violence,” said President Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, American Senator Amy Klopochar, Democrat Minnesota, described “an attack on everything we offer as democracy.”

The police have determined the suspect as Mr. Poelter, 57. They did not give details of a possible motive.

Mr. Poelter, a former politician, was one day a member of the state’s workforce development council in the same state in the role of Hoffman.

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

According to the investigators, the investigators found a list of 70 “goals”, including the names of government democratic politicians, in a vehicle that led the suspect due to the assassination.

Walz was a member of Congress, Ilhan Omar, and Dubran in Minnesota, namely Amy Klopochar and Tina Smith, and the lawyer of Minnesota, Keith Ellson, in the list of success, according to the local media.

A person familiar with the investigation told the Minnesota Star Tribune that family planning sites, which provide abortion and birth control, were also listed on the list, as a person familiar with the investigation told the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Sopt Evans told correspondents that he would not describe the notebook in the car as a “statement” because it was not “a thesis on all types of ideology and writings.”

Mr. Builter is a security contractor and a religious missionary work in Africa and the Middle East, according to an online autobiography.

He was once preached to a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to Facebook photos. He had traveled a lot to the nation, referring to posts from his LinkedIn account.

It seems that a two -year -old video clip has been explained by addressing a group, adding that he has a wife and five children.

He also worked in Minnesota for a main food distributor, a storage store series and two funeral services, according to his profile on the Internet.

According to the local television company KTTC, the only criminal history of Mr. Builter in Minnesota was traffic tickets, including speed violations and parking lots.

Send a disturbing message to friends at a residence in Minneapolis, where he had rented a room and will remain a night or two per week, Minnesota Star Tribune reports.

“I will go for a while. I may be dead soon, so I just want to tell you that I love you both comrades and I hope it will not be this way.”

On Sunday night, the police said that they found Mr. Politer after receiving information seen in the Green Il area, a village that is not far from his home.

The officers have described two days for “the largest restaurant in the history of the state”, where multiple law enforcement agencies work together to find it.

Mr. Politer was arrested in a rural area with most of them from agricultural lands, fields and small forests, and they were detained “without any use of force” or police injury.

Police said he was armed when he was arrested, but he did not provide more information about the type of weapons.

Sopt Evans said that the arrest of Mr. Poilter brought a “sense of comfort” to the societies and legislators who were on the list of the suspect’s goals.

He also said that the application of the law believed that the suspect acted alone and was not part of a wider network.

The authorities also condemned the impersonation of Mr. Politer to a police officer while carrying out the attacks, saying, “He took advantage of the confidence that Zina is officially intended to represent.”

The governor of Minnesota Tim Walz also followed an appeal to the whims, urged people to “handsle hands” and “find a common ground”.

“The actions of an unimaginable man have changed the state of Minnesota,” he said.

“This cannot be the base. It cannot be the way we deal with our political differences.”

Before the arrest of Mr. Politre, his wife was arrested at a traffic station with three relatives in a car in the city of Unamia, more than 100 miles from the family home, on Saturday morning, but it was released after the interrogation.

Mr. Politer is scheduled to appear before the court in Minneapolis at 13:30 local time (14:30 EST; 18:30 GMT) on Monday.