A Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were killed, and another politician and his wife were seriously injured early Saturday in a “politically motivated attack” when a madman posing as a police officer turned up at their homes and opened fire, authorities said.
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their Brooklyn Park home shortly after 2 a.m.
The pair were killed after the gunman targeted Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in their Champlin home roughly 5 miles away.
Update: Former appointee of Tim Walz sought in deadly shootings of Minnesota lawmaker, her husband had ‘No Kings’ fliers in car: sources
BREAKING: The suspect who k*lled Rep. Melissa Hortman has been identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter
Boelter appears to have been appointed by TIM WALZ to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board pic.twitter.com/HpYriW2VPa
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