A representative chosen local by Minnesota and her husband were killed at home, the night from Friday to Saturday, June 14. Police caused a great human hunt to find the shooter. Another local chosen official and his wife were seriously injured. The state governor Tim Walz denounces an act of “political violence.”
A local team and her husband killed, the suspect in the race
The local democrat chosen Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed by their homes on the night from Friday to Saturday.
The shooter, a man disguised as a policeman, headed for the first time around 2 am, local senator John Hoffman and his wife, at home, in the town of Champlin.
Both, “touched by many shots”, were operated in the hospital and “we are reasonably optimistic about the fact that they will survive this attempt to murder,” said the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, at a press conference.
Then, around 3:30 am, when reviewing Melissa Hortman’s house in Brooklyn Park as a caution, a few kilometers away, the police fell on the assailant, who “immediately shot them,” said Drew Evans, head of the Minnesota Research Office, to the press.
“The individual managed to escape during this fire exchange,” he added. A “human hunting that involves hundreds of police officers,” according to Mark Bruley, Brooklyn Park police officer.
A list of elected officials found in the shooter car
A manifesto was found with a list of many names of elected officials, including Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman, in the suspect’s car. CAPS mentioning the name of the Anti-Trump manifestations, “No Reyes”, they were also there.
Security has been reinforced for the elected officials present in the suspect list. The manifestation planned in Minneapolis against Donald Trump was canceled by the organizers and the police police invited the inhabitants not to go to the various planned demonstrations, such as caution.
Because the assailant had disguised himself as a police officer, Brooklyn Park police officer asked residents to be particularly attentive and ask for help if someone with a uniform touch at the door.
An act of “political violence”
This murder is a “deliberate act of political violence,” Governor Tim Walz said. He intervenes in a particularly tense context in the United States, between the intervention of soldiers against demonstrations in Los Angeles, a military parade in Washington and anti-top demonstrations throughout the country.
“A Pacific political discourse is at the base of our democracy. We do not resolve our conflicts with the gun,” said Tim Walz, former Democratic candidate package Kamala Harris in the presidential elections last November.
Donald Trump quickly denounced a “terrible” attack, his justice minister insisted that “this horrible political violence will not be tolerated.”
An “chosen” chosen “
Melissa Hortman, a victim of her husband Mark of “who seems to be a politically motivation murder” according to Tim Walz, was an elected official of the Chamber of Representatives of Minnesota since 2004 and was his former president.
Mother of two and 55 years, Melissa Hortman is “irreplaceable”, the Democratic governor moved.
The elected official “had dedicated his life to serving the inhabitants of Minnesota, with integrity and compassion,” he wrote in X Amy Klobuchar, senator of Minnesota, telling himself “annoying and horrified” by the death of her “great friend.”
The United States has recently suffered several specific attacks against its political leaders. Donald Trump escaped an attempt to murder last July during a campaign meeting in Pennsylvania. In 2022, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, then Democratic Chief of the House of Representatives, had been attacked with a hammer in his house in California.
Source: BFM TV
