Daylight was still two hours off when Brooklyn Park police approached the home of former Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman to find someone had beat them there.

A man accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker while posing as a police officer is expected to appear in a Minnesota court on Monday afternoon on state murder charges, after a massive two-day manhunt ended with his arrest on Sunday night.

Hennepin County prosecutors say they’ll seek first-degree murder charges MPR Staff Vance Boelter, the suspect in the targeted shootings of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, is expected to make his first court appearance Monday afternoon.