Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker who was gunned down in what is described as a politically motivated attack, earned degrees at Boston University and Harvard.

Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman, State Sen. John Hoffman and their spouses were all shot early Saturday in targeted attacks.

A manhunt is underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer and had a list of possible targets, officials said.

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

Minnesota state representative Melissa A. Hortman graduated from a Harvard Kennedy School program in 2018. Former instructors and classmates, who remembered her as principled and eager to learn, were left grieving when she was killed by an assassin’s bullets on Saturday.

A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout Leader and worked at her dad’s auto parts store. A mother and wife whose husband was killed alongside her.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison provides updates on the ongoing manhunt for a man accused of shooting and killing state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. The attorney general remembers Hortman as a "dear friend.

But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the 2022 elections, when Democrats took control of state