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A Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were shot and killed overnight in what Gov. Tim Walz said was a “politically motivated assassination.”
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Ali were fatally shot in Brooklyn Park by a suspect impersonating a police officer, police said.
In a related shooting, DFL Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were shot in Champlin. They are expected to survive and are out of surgery. The incidents unfolded at around 2 a.m.
The suspect exchanged gunfire with responding police but fled the scene and is still at large with a massive manhunt now underway.
A shelter-in-place order has been issued within a 3-mile radius of Edinburgh Golf Course.
Emerita Melissa Hortman and Sen. John Hoffman were shot overnight. Their spouses were also shot. (Fox 9)
MEMORIAL DAY MASS SHOOTING IN PHILADELPHIA LEAVES 2 DEAD, 9 INJURED
The suspect wore black body armor, a badge, a Taser and appeared indistinguishable from real law enforcement, police said. He also drove a police-style SUV with flashing lights.
“Our state lost a great leader,” Walz said at a press briefing Saturday morning, describing the incident as an “unspeakable tragedy. “Speaker Hortman was