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Minnesota police, FBI hunt suspect in deadly shooting of Democratic state legislator

# A gunman posing as a police officer killed a senior Democratic state assemblywoman and her husband yesterday in an apparent politically motivated assassination. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said the gunman also wounded a second lawmaker and his spouse. A major search backed by the FBI was underway for the suspect, who fled on foot after firing at police and abandoning a vehicle in which officers found a “manifesto” and a list of other legislators and officials. According to law enforcement officials the list found in the abandoned vehicle had about 70 names.