Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman, who once taught Sunday school at St. Timothy in Blaine, Minnesota, and was a speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their home early June 14 in what Gov. Tim Walz said “appears to be a politically motivated assassination.”

But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the 2022 elections, when Democrats took control of state

Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed in a shooting at their home on Saturday morning.

A man impersonating a police officer shot and killed Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband at their home in what Gov. Tim Walz called “targeted political violence.”

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard is urging lawmakers to be "vigilant and aware of their surroundings" following the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers on Saturday.Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed,