Yvette told Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar that she was shot eight times and Sen. Hoffman was shot nine times.

State Rep. Melissa Hortman and State Sen. John Hoffman, who were targeted by a shooter on Saturday, were longtime members of Minnesota's state legislature.

State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were gunned down at their home early on Saturday morning, but lived. Melissa Hortman - the top Democratic legislator in the state House - and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed. Yvette Hoffman said in a statement that she and her husband John were "devastated" by the Hortmans' deaths.

The manhunt for Vance Luther Boelter, a suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, has South Dakota residents on alert.

Washington D.C. has begun discussing the security of politicians across the country after two Minnesota lawmakers were shot on Saturday.