DETROIT — The suspect accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another over the weekend included the names of several Democratic members of Michigan's congressional delegation in notes he wrote, according to two sources familiar with the evidence.

It wasn't immediately clear if the Michigan officials' names were featured in a potential target list or simply mentioned in documents written by Vance Boelter, the suspect.

The Michigan lawmakers included U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit; Hillary Scholten, D-Grand Rapids; and Debbie Dingell, D-Ann Arbor.

Scholten’s office said Monday that she had increased her security and canceled a Muskegon town hall planned for Monday night. Scholten spokeswoman Cecilia Belzer said Michigan State Police were the first to let the congresswoman know about her name appearing among Boelter's documents.

"Out of an abundance of caution and to not divert additional law enforcement resources away from protecting the broader public at this time, this is the responsible choice," Scholten said in a statement of now holding her town hall. "We will reschedule this event as soon as possible, and I remain committed to ensuring every West Michigander has the opportunity to make their voice heard."

The Monday criminal complaint filed against Boelter said officers recovered from his SUV several notebooks full of hand-written notes that listed the names of more than 45 Minnesota state and federal public officials, including prominent Democrats and community figures, individuals with ties to Planned Parenthood and the abortion rights movement, according to the Associated Press.

The notebooks also contained lists of internet-based people search engines used to aggregate home address information, including Spokeo, Pipl and the Whitepages, according to the complaint.

During a press conference overnight, Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said there were names in Boelter's documents from Michigan, Illinois, Iowa Nebraska and Wisconsin.

“I will not get into any more specifics beyond that,” Evans told reporters.

However, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzer told reporters Monday that there was no "hit list" with the names of Illinois politicians on it. More than 600 names were included within documents police uncovered in "more of a hodgepodge," Pritzker said.

"It wasn’t a list of 600," Pritzker said. "It was literally a few people here and a few people there."

The suspect, Boelter, surrendered to police Sunday after they found him in the woods near his home following a massive manhunt that began early Saturday near Minneapolis.

Boelter is accused of posing as a police officer and fatally shooting Democratic former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in their home early Saturday in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis. Officials said he also shot Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette. They were injured at their residence about 9 miles away.

Boelter went to the homes of two other lawmakers to carry out more violence on the night of the shootings, but one of the other lawmakers was not home and the suspect left the other house after police arrived, acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said at a Monday news conference.

The 57-year-old Boelter is facing state charges, including murder and attempted murder, and has been charged with federal murder and stalking offenses.

“Boelter planned his attack carefully” by researching his intended victims and their families and conducting surveillance of their homes and taking notes, Thompson said. Though the targets were Democrats and elected officials, the acting U.S. attorney said it was too soon to speculate on any sort of political ideology that could explain his motives.

Authorities declined to name the two other elected officials whom Boelter allegedly stalked but who escaped harm. But it was clear the shootings were politically motivated, they said.

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