Minnesota officials said they are searching for Vance Luther Boelter, who was last seen in the Twin Cities area.

By Tom Polansek, Joseph Tanfani, Ned Parker and David Shepardson MINNEAPOLIS/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The suspect in the deadly shooting of a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounding of another had links to evangelical ministries and said he was a security expert with experience in the Gaza Strip and Africa,

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

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.

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.

Officers responded just after 1:30 a.m. to Prospect Avenue and East 35th Street on a reported shooting. They found four people in a BP gas station parking lot suffering from gunshot wounds, said Sgt. Phil DiMartino, a police spokesman.

The man sought by authorities for allegedly shooting Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota on Saturday worked for a security company that advertised a fleet of ‘police type vehicles.’

The Minnesota State Patrol urged the public not to attend planned demonstrations across the state Saturday “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a post on X, following [the shootings of two s