A golden retriever that belonged to Melissa Hortman, the Democratic Minnesota lawmaker shot and killed at her home in what was described as an "act of targeted political violence," was also shot during the attack and reportedly euthanized.

State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were injured, in what officials called a targeted attack.

US Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, called it "an attack on everything we stand for as a democracy". State representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their home,