Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman has been released from a hospital intensive care unit and into a rehabilitation facility to continue his recovery from a politically-motivated attack in June, a family spokesperson tells CNN Tuesday.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called it a "politically motivated assassination” after Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot and injured. Democratic state rep Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were also fatally shot in their home just over an hour earlier

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.