The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States.

Several MAGA members have called out the state's Democratic leader over his previous appointment of the suspect to the governor's workforce development board.

The man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one of them, has been taken into custody, two law enforcement officials said.

The United States has a long and grim history of political violence, from presidential assassinations to lynchings and violence aimed at Black people in

Gov. Tim Walz said that Minnesota Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also each shot multiple times.

On Saturday, two state lawmakers from Minnesota were attacked in their homes in what Governor Tim Walz called a "politically motivated assassination" attempt. The attacks left one politician dead and another seriously injured. Police are hunting for a suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, who remains at large.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and law enforcement officials provide updates on a “targeted” shooting that killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.