Tim Walz confirms Minnesota state lawmaker, husband dead, state senator and his wife wounded in ‘political assassination’

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced Saturday morning that state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband are dead, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife are wounded, following a politically motivated shooting overnight in Brooklyn Park, MN. Melissa Hortman, a former Minnesota House Speaker, and her spouse were shot and killed early Saturday in their Brooklyn Park home. A second state lawmaker, Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, were shot multiple times in Champlin, MN.