Questions and misinformation have spread on social media and other platforms about the political views of the man suspected of assassinating Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman, and any connections that alleged gunman had to Gov.

A Minnesota lawmaker and her husband were shot and killed in their home early Saturday by someone posing as a police officer, and a second lawmaker and his wife were wounded in what Gov. Tim Walz des...

Hortman and her husband were killed, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called it a “politically motivated assassination.”