In the hours after the weekend shooting spree targeting Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, information was still just trickling out.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), appeared to blame the assassination of Smith’s friend, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, on the political left. Smith sought him out to chat.

In mid-June 2025, a rumor began to spread that Vance Boelter, the accused shooter of two Minnesota Democratic state lawmakers and their spouses on June 14, had once been appointed a member of the Governor's Workforce Development Board by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz. One of the targeted couples died.

After a 43-hour search, Boelter was arrested in rural Sibley County and charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Columbus Democrat, said her name was found on the materials of the man accused of shooting 2 Minnesota Democratic lawmakers.

Rep. Hillary Scholten, a Democrat from Michigan, canceled a town hall event Monday after learning that her name was on the target list of Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter. “After being made aware that my name was on a list connected to the recent tragic shooting in Minnesota,

Sen. Mike Lee's unfounded claims on social media about the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker have angered his U.S. Senate colleague from the state.

The man suspected of shooting and killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and shooting and wounding a second lawmaker and his wife is due in court.