The man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House held deeply religious and politically conservative views, telling a congregation in Africa two years ago that the U.S. was in a “bad place” where most churches didn’t oppose abortion.

The search for Vance Luther Boelter, the FBI-wanted man who is suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses at their residences in the early hours of Saturday morning, is well into its second day.

A man posing as a police officer shot and killed Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband in a brazen attack at their home early Saturday, and a second lawmaker, Senator John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in a separate shooting in what Gov. Tim Walz described as “targeted political violence.”