It’s a scene that has played out hundreds of times in movies and real life: Someone pretending to be a police officer gains the trust of a stranger and then commits terrible crimes. That was apparently the method used by the assailant who knocked on the doors of two state legislators early Saturday,

Police are searching for a 57-year-old man after the killings of a state lawmaker and her husband, and the shooting of a state senator and his wife in a separate attack. transcript State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband,

Investigators found a cowboy hat near the vehicle and were working to determine whether it belongs to Boelter.

A manhunt is under way after two attacks in which another local Democratic politician and his wife were shot and injured, Governor Tim Walz says.

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, was killed by a gunman impersonating a police officer; Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife were also shot.

MSNBC's Alex Witt questioned whether urging protesters to stay away from #NoKings march will "come back to haunt" police, as anti-Trump anger gets bottled up. The post MSNBC’s Witt Wonders if Warning #NoKings Protesters Away Will ‘Haunt’ MN Police: ‘Will Just Bottle Up Their Aggravation’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman was shot in her Brooklyn Park home, while fellow party member Sen. John Hoffman was targeted roughly 8 miles away in Champlin, sources told 5 Eyewitness News. A manhunt is on for the suspect, who was wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants.

A motorist who struck and hurt three officers during a traffic stop late Thursday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, is now in custody, police say.