Daylight was still two hours off when Brooklyn Park police approached the home of former Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman to find someone had beat them there.

At the Kansas and Missouri State Capitol buildings, you have to go through security and capitol security guards on duty at all times. But those measures don't extend to lawmakers at their home.

Melissa Hortman and her husband died in the Minnesota shootings. John Hoffman and his wife were seriously wounded. Here's what we know about them.

Feds: Assassin Vance Boelter went to four Minnesota lawmakers' homes originally appeared on Bring Me The News. In a chilling development, federal charges filed against Vance Boelter allege the assassin went to two other Minnesota lawmakers homes the night he shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife and murdered Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband.