Vance Boelter grew up in a small Minnesota town, a background that gave little hint of the zealotry or the deadly violence of which he is accused.

Hours after the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers over the weekend, authorities asked David Carlson to identify his lifelong friend in a harrowing photograph. Carlson says he had known and

Notebooks found in Boelter’s car reveal the chilling, meticulous planning he allegedly put into the twisted attack on two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses.

The suspect built a scattered career ranging from food to retailing to private security to pastoring, public records and his online postings show.

He wounded Sen. John Hoffman and his wife but didn’t come into contact with the two other DFL legislators, investigators say.

A lifelong friend of the alleged Minnesota gunman says Vance Boelter had been struggling to find work and was wrestling with a “darkness that was inside of him” at the time of the shootings.

The judge presiding over the upcoming burglary trial of state Sen. Nicole Mitchell is postponing the trial given the slaying of Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was fatally shot along with her husband in their home Saturday morning.

The manhunt for the man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses continues into Sunday, with sources telling ABC affiliate KSTP that his wife has been detained for questioning.