India, June 15 -- Minnesota authorities have launched manhunt for politically motivated shooting suspect Vance Luther Boelter.

Boelter, a former member of Governor Tim Walz's Governor's Workforce Development Board, is charged with posing as a police officer in order to launch two planned assaults on state lawmakers early on Saturday morning.

The 57-year-old former state official is accused of killing former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.

The New York Post reports that at around two in the morning, Boelter broke into the Champlin residence of State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, shooting them both several times and seriously wounding them. The suspect later arrived at Melissa Hortman's Brookl...