A suspect is in custody following targeted shootings that left one Minnesota lawmaker dead and another injured. Gov. Tim Walz called the shootings "politically motivated" in a news briefing on Saturday.

Vance Luther Boelter, the suspected gunman in the shootings of two Minnesota state lawmakers, has been arrested by authorities after a two-day manhunt. According to ABC News, Boelter, 57, was arrested near his farm in Green Isle,

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounding another lawmaker and his wife is in custody following a nearly two-day manhunt that followed a shocking streak of political violence.

State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were gunned down at their home early on Saturday morning, but lived. Melissa Hortman - the top Democratic legislator in the state House - and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed. Yvette Hoffman said in a statement that she and her husband John were "devastated" by the Hortmans' deaths.

Washington D.C. has begun discussing the security of politicians across the country after two Minnesota lawmakers were shot on Saturday.

Vance Boelter is the suspect wanted in shootings that killed a Minnesota state representative and her husband and wounded another state senator and his wife.