
A Minnesota lawmaker and her husband were shot and killed in their home early Saturday by someone posing as a police officer, and a second lawmaker and his wife were wounded in what Governor Tim Walz described as “targeted political violence.”
Former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her spouse were killed in their Brooklyn Park home, while state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, although shot multiple times, were taken to the hospital and underwent surgery.