As of Saturday, June 13, the 41-year-old man who died has been identified as Thomas Antonio Jackson of Troy, police said. During the June 3 traffic stop on the white caravan, the man exited and fled southbound on foot, police said.

Another state legislator and his wife were also shot in the predawn hours in brazen attacks that officials called “politically motivated.”

An investigation is underway after a shooting Saturday inside a Hoover restaurant. Officers responded at 1:47 p.m. to Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux on Tattersall Park Drive. Capt. Keith Czeskleba said one person was injured and taken to the hospital in stable condition. The shooting was an isolated incident, Czeskleba said.

Even as the national political discourse has grown hyperpartisan in recent years, Minnesota had kept a foothold on its own traditions.

Several political leaders across the state have released statements in response to the targeted shootings of two Minnesota State Legislators.

Police first responded to a call of a shooting at Hoffman's home in Champlin at around 2 a.m. Saturday, Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said in the briefing.

A bullet narrowly missed Minnesota Democratic state Senator John Hoffman's heart during Saturday's shooting by suspect Vance Boelter, his nephew told local news station KARE 11. Hoffman and his wife,