The shootings began around 2 a.m. Saturday, when Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were both shot multiple times at their home in Champlin, Minnesota, authorities said.

A gunman posing as a police officer killed the senior Democratic state assemblywoman and her husband on June 14, 2025 in an apparent "politically motivated assassination".

Officers canvas the neighborhood after what police said was a targeted shooting in the area around Edinburgh Golf Course in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, U.S. June 14, 2025.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed Saturday in a politically motivated shooting.

State Rep. Melissa Hortman, 55, the House's Democratic leader and former speaker, was shot to death early Saturday in her Minneapolis-area home along with her husband by someone posing as a law enfor...

An attack against lawmakers is an attack on American democracy itself.

Hortman, 55, represented Minnesota House District 34B as a member of the Democratic Party. Hortman, who was shot and killed in what Gov. Tim Walz called a politically motivated act of violence, also served as the Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House.