{"id":338,"date":"2025-06-17T22:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/?p=338"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:54:20","slug":"tragedy-strikes-minnesota-rep-melissa-hortman-and-husband-killed-in-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy Strikes: Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman And Husband Killed In Fatal Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota is reeling after a politically motivated attack left State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, dead. The shooting occurred early Saturday at their home in Brooklyn Park. Authorities also responded to a separate attack on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, who were critically injured but survived after emergency surgery. Both lawmakers were members of Minnesota\u2019s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and husband shot and killed, Walz says\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8BqOyxtThM?feature=oembed\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>Governor Tim Walz called the attacks \u201cpolitically motivated assassinations.\u201d The suspect, disguised as a police officer, fled after a shootout with responding officers at the Hortmans\u2019 residence. No officers were injured, and a multi-agency manhunt is now underway, involving the FBI and state officials.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed, State Sen. John Hoffman hurt in 'targeted' attack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JNlwaW_YagA?feature=oembed\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Melissa Hortman was a respected legislator, community volunteer, and former Speaker of the House. Her husband, Mark, worked in IT as a program manager and was known for his leadership in tech innovation. Their deaths have sparked grief and national outrage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15112\" src=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-305.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>President Biden condemned the violence, stating: \u201cThis heinous attack motivated by politics should never happen in America. We must unite against political violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota is reeling after a politically motivated attack left State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, dead. The shooting occurred early Saturday at their home in Brooklyn Park. Authorities &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starnews1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}