Authorities are investigating after targeted shootings left one Minnesota lawmaker dead and another injured. Gov. Tim Walz called the shootings "politically motivated" in a news briefing on Saturday.

The suspect, 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, is believed to have posed as a police officer to gain access to the home of State Rep. Melissa Hortman, according to law-enforcement officials.

Hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally shot a Democratic state lawmaker in her home in what Gov.