Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in politically motivated shootings overnight, Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday.

Minnesota's world was turned upside down early Saturday morning with the news that state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed in their home, and State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot multiple times in what Gov. Tim Walz called a "politically motivated assassination."

Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill were at each other‘s throats. By Saturday, they were joining to decry political violence and seek more security. The middle-of-the-night killing in Minnesota of a top Democratic state lawmaker and the shooting of a colleague—allegedly by a suspect posing as a police officer who had a list of other elected officials—jolted Capitol Hill,