A lifelong friend of the alleged Minnesota gunman says Vance Boelter had been struggling to find work and was wrestling with a “darkness that was inside of him” at the time of the shootings.

Vance Boelter, accused of shooting two politicians and their spouses, appears to have associated with Christian nationalist institutions

Nikki Budzinski, an Illinois Congresswoman who represents St. Louis’ Metro East region, says her name was included in the notes of a Minnesota murder suspect accused of killing a state

Early Saturday morning, when a man dressed like a police officer knocked at the home of a Minnesota state legislator, marked the start of nearly 40 hours of violence and fear that swept through towns in an arc around Minneapolis.

Assassination suspect arrested after fatal attack on Minnesota lawmakers. The man suspected of shooting two Democratic lawmakers, killing one, in what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz call