MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Violence and fear swept through towns in an arc around Minneapolis for more than 40 hours over the weekend as a man seemingly intent on sowing political devastation killed one Minnesota state lawmaker and left another bleeding from nine bullet wounds.

Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed at their home early Saturday morning by a man disguised as police, officials said.

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