Minnesota Democrat Representative Melissa Hortman has died after being shot in her home, Governor Tim Walz said during a press conference Saturday. Hortman was the Minnesota Speaker Emerita and House DFL Caucus Leader. Her husband was also killed, Walz said.

A gunman posing as a police officer killed a senior Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband on Saturday in an apparent "politically motivated assassination," and wounded a second lawmaker and his spouse.

A shelter-in-place order is in place near Minneapolis in the US state of Minnesota after targeted shootings overnight, local authorities say.