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.

A manhunt is underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer and had a list of possible targets, officials said.

Minnesota's DFL party was created on April 15, 1944, after the Minnesota Democrats merged with the Farmer-Labor Party, according to the party's official website. Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey is believed to be the founder of the party after serving a key role in the merger of the two affiliations.

Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in politically motivated shootings early Saturday, Gov. Tim Walz said. Authorities have also identified a suspect who is still at large.

State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the House’s Democratic leader and former speaker, was shot to death early Saturday.

Follow along for the latest on the manhunt after the deadly shootings that claimed the life of a Minnesota lawmaker.

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 Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said in the briefing.

The Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Lynx paid tribute to the state politicians and their spouses who were shot by a suspect allegedly impersonating a police officer overnight.

Authorities searched a vehicle on a rural road outside Minneapolis on Sunday that they believe had been used by the man wanted in the shootings of two Democratic lawmakers, as a state on edge struggled to make sense of the brazen political violence that left one leader dead.

A manhunt is underway after the fatal shooting of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband overnight. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were also injured in what Gov. Tim Walz called "politically motivated" shootings.