Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said on Monday that state legislators have received “a noticeable increase in verbal threats” in recent years as Minnesotans reel from the assassination of a state lawmaker.

State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the House’s Democratic leader and former speaker, was shot to death early Saturday.

Fairfax County police say that although there is no intelligence linking threats in Minnesota to the area, they still plan to ramp up security outside the homes and neighborhoods of elected officials.

Colorado politicians condemn politically motivated violence following the shooting of Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses.

Lawmakers are pushing congressional leaders to take greater steps to ensure their safety as elected officials confront the growing risk of violence.

Minnesota’s House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated assassination, Gov. Tim Walz announced Saturday. A second lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded.

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another has been taken into custody, ending a nearly two-day search that put the entire state on edge