Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced on Saturday that state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband are dead, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife are wounded in a politically motivated shooting, reports cbsnews.com. According to the report, Hortman and her husband were shot in Brooklyn Park, while Hoffman and his wife were shot in Champlin. Speaking at a Saturday presser, Walz called the deaths of Hortman and her husband “a political assassination”.
“Hortman was someone who served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, humor, and a sense of service,” Walz said. “She was a formidable public servant. A fixture and a giant in Minnesota.”
News agency AP reported that Hoffman is married and has one daughter. Hortman was the top House Democratic leader in the state legislature and a former House speaker. She was first elected in 2004.
Both Hoffman and Hortman represented districts located north of Minneapolis.
The authorities, according to CBS News, said that the suspect is a White man with brown hair who’s believed to be wearing a blue shirt and blue pants. They say he is misrepresenting himself as law enforcement.
The Metro residents are advised that if the police show up at the door, they will be the officers in pairs and not alone.
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