Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Saturday announced that Democrat state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by the still-unidentified gunman and/or his accomplice earlier this morning. Walz called the attacks on Hortman and state Senator John Hoffman – who Walz said he and his wife are still in surgery Saturday morning – a “politically motivated assassination.”
Hortman was the top-ranking Dem in the state House had entered into a complex power-sharing agreement with Republican leader Lisa Demuth as the result of a 67-67 tie in the chamber’s makeup.