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Gunman Who Shot 2 Minnesota Lawmakers Still at Large
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By Nathan Layne BLAINE, Minnesota (Reuters) -From the pulpit on Sunday, Father Joe Whalen exhorted his parishioners to avoid the kind of extreme partisanship and hate that appeared to be behind the killing of one of the church's own,
The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at home are the latest in a grim spike in political violence.
A manhunt is underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer and had a list of possible targets, officials said.
Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed; Sen. John Hoffman and his wife remain hospitalized after what Gov. Walz called a targeted political attack.
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Federal officials say the suspect in the Minnesota lawmaker shootings had notebooks with a list of over 45 state and federal officials to target. Rep. Kelly Morrison, who says she was on the list, joins Chris Jansing to discuss how “traumatic” the shootings have been on her community and why she fears the political violence will have a chilling effect on the country.
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.