A Minnesota man plans to plead not guilty to charges he killed the top Democratic leader in the state House and her husband​ after wounding another lawmaker and his wife​, his attorney said.

Periods of religious zealotry and an unsettled professional career were intertwined for years before he was accused of murder.

A federal grand jury indicted Vance Boelter on six charges in the shootings that killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.