This is Democracy Now. I'm Amy Goodman. After the biggest man hunted Minnesota history, authorities

have detained a 57-year-old man accused of assassinating former Minnesota Democratic House Speaker Melissa

Hortman and her husband in their home early Saturday. The suspect, Vance Belter, is also accused

of shooting and wounding State Senator

John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their home. Authorities say Belter carried out the

shootings while disguised as a police officer. Security footage shows Belter wearing a mask

in a police vest and a badge as he approach Hoffman's front door in Champlain with a flashlight

and a gun. Authorities say they were alerted to the

attacks by a 911 call made after the initial attack on Hoffman and his wife by their daughter,

Hope, who was at home with her parents. Hoffman was shot nine times, his wife a vet eight times.

She reportedly threw herself in front of her daughter, Hope, to shield her.

Hope was not shot.

After police learned the shooting victim was a state legislator, they said they sent officers

to the nearby home of Senator Hartman in Brooklyn Park.

And when they arrived around 3.35 a.m., they found the suspect's SUV in the driveway.

The Minnesota Star Tribune reports, quote,

an officer watched as Belter shot Mark Hortman through the front door,

and after an exchange of gunfire, Belter retreated inside the house and escaped.

Police say they then found Melissa and Mark Cortman shot dead inside their home. In Belter's car, police found

three AK-47 assault rifles and nine-millimeter handgun, a hit list written by the gunmen that

contained the names of about 70 people, including prominent Democratic lawmakers and abortion

providers and advocates. Naming Planned Parenthood. Flyers for Saturdays no King's rallies were also found.

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