MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, who was shot nine times by a gunman posing as a police officer who authorities say went on to kill another lawmaker, is out of the hospital and is now recovering in a transitional care unit, his family said.

Sen. John Hoffman, of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was initially hospitalized in critical condition after he and his wife were shot at their Minneapolis-area home.