(17 Jun 2025)
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Minneapolis – 17 June 2025
1. Various funeral procession carrying bodies of Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman
2. Minneapolis downtown skyline
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The bodies of Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman were brought to a Minneapolis funeral home Tuesday. A white van and coach bus escorted by police vehicles and a firetruck drove from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office in Minnetonka to the Washburn-McReavy Funeral Home.
Hortman and her husband fatally shot in their home early Saturday morning by a man posing as a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.
Fifty seven year old Vance Boelter faces federal murder and stalking charges related to the Hortmans’ deaths. Authorities say he also shot and wounded Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, at their home in a nearby neighborhood that same morning. They also said he visited the homes of two other state legislators but did not encounter them, and officials in other states reported Monday that they were on his list of targets.
Melissa Hortman was a lifelong Minneapolis-area resident who rose to become a powerful Democratic leader in the state’s deeply divided Legislature.
Elected to the Minnesota House in 2004, she helped pass liberal initiatives like free lunches for public school students in 2023 as the chamber’s speaker. This year, she helped break a budget impasse that threatened to shut down state government.
State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, who were shot at their home in Champlin, a Minneapolis suburb, were recovering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Hoffman is chair of the Senate committee overseeing human resources spending.
He also served on a state workforce development board with Boelter, who was twice appointed to the board. It was not clear if they knew each other.
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