Investigators found a cowboy hat near the vehicle and were working to determine whether it belongs to Boelter.

The deadly, politically motivated shooting in Minnesota has a connection to the Triangle. Mark Hortman, the husband of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman, was a Raleigh native. The Hortmans were shot and killed in an attack at their home in suburban Minneapolis early Saturday.

Former Iowa State Sen. Rob Hogg said he and Hortman were law school classmates at the University of Minnesota.

A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout Leader and worked at her dad’s auto parts store. A mother and wife whose husband was killed alongside her.

But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the 2022 elections, when Democrats took control of state