Minnesota officials said they are searching for Vance Luther Boelter, who was last seen in the Twin Cities area.

The Minnesota State Patrol urged the public not to attend planned demonstrations across the state Saturday “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a post on X, following [the shootings of two s

According to the website for his company Praetorian Guard Security Services, Boelter is listed as director of security patrols.

A state lawmaker and her husband were shot and killed, and a second lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded early Saturday.

Even as the national political discourse has grown hyperpartisan in recent years, Minnesota had kept a foothold on its own traditions.

Police first responded to a call of a shooting at Hoffman's home in Champlin at around 2 a.m. Saturday, Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said in the briefing.

The suspect in the assassination and attempted assassination of two Minnesota lawmakers has been identified as Vance Boelter, two law enforcement officials briefed on the case tell CNN. Law enforcement found a hit list in the Minnesota suspect’s car that contained nearly 70 names – including pro-abortion rights advocates and lawmakers in other states – a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN.