2nd legislator, spouse wounded
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. – The leading Democrat in the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman, and her husband were assassinated in their home in this northwest Minneapolis suburb. A lone gunman ,himself dressed like a police officer, exchanged shots with Brooklyn Park police as they arrived about 3:35 a.m. He got away. Two hours earlier, state Senator John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in their home five miles north in the outer-ring suburb of Champlin. Police in neighboring juridictions then decided to check on the well-being of other legislators in northern Minneapolis suburbs. It was then at Melissa and Mark Hortman’s house that police had a shoot-out with the assassin. In both the Brooklyn Park and Champlin shootings, the victims were struck by bullets multiple times.
Representative Hortman. 1970-2025.
Mark Hortman. Couple had two children.