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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michelle Del Rey

Minnesota victims’ dog had to be put down after being shot in Saturday’s political assassinations

A pet dog belonging to a Minnesota state representative and her husband who were shot dead at their home on Saturday, has been put down after being wounded in the attack.

Melissa Hortman, 55, and her husband Mark, 58, were shot multiple times at their Brooklyn Park home in the early hours of Saturday, by a man posing as a police officer. The same night state senator John Hoffman, 60, and his wife Yvette were targeted and shot and wounded in a similar attack at their home.

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