In Minnesota they shot a politician with her husband, another politician is injured
It was a politically motivated crime, says the governor.
Minnesota. An unknown striker shot on Saturday early morning at two high -ranking politicians of Minnesota, killing a member of the State House of Representatives and her husband and injured the Senator there.
The Minnesota Governor announced this Tim Walzaccording to which they were targeted attacks.
Minnesota Senator John Hoffman and his wife suffered gunshot wounds in the attack, while the former chairwoman of the State House of Representatives Melissa Hortman, together with her husband, did not survive the shooting.
Investigators believe that the suspect, who is still on the run, married a cop, writes AP. The police are trying to find out the motive of the attacks.
« Everyone in Minnesota and the whole country must be opposed to all forms of political violence, » Walz said at a press conference. The attacker will be responsible for his actions, he stressed.
Democrat Hortman, who was elected for the first time in 2004, was the leader of the democratic minority for the position of Minnesota for the first time in 2004. Hortman was a lawyer and her husband had two children.
Hoffman, as well as a member of the Democratic Party, was first elected in 2012. He is married and has one daughter.
It is the highest built representative of Democrats in the State Legislative Corps and the former Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies.
