Threats and violent acts have become part of the political landscape, still shocking but somehow not so surprising.

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

A suspect has been arrested and charged in the wake of the Minnesota lawmaker shootings involving the deaths of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and the injury of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.

At a Sunday evening press conference, Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said the search for Boelter remains a “very active investigation”

The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States.

Members of Congress will receive security briefings this week after a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were killed, and another state lawmaker and his wife were wounded.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gave this statement overnight after state police apprehended the suspect in the assassination of State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former Speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband after a two-day manhunt.

The United States has a long and grim history of political violence, from presidential assassinations to lynchings and violence aimed at Black people in