Minnesota Home Democratic Caucus Chief Melissa Hortman speaks with reporters on the state Capitol in St. Paul on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar remembered fellow Minnesota Democrat Mellissa Hortman, who was fatally shot in her house early Saturday morning alongside her husband, Mark, as a “true public servant.”
“I simply want everybody on the earth, the political world, knew this girl like we all know her in Minnesota, beloved by Democrats and Republicans,” Klobuchar mentioned of Hortman, who was a member of the Minnesota Home since 2005.
“We began out collectively in politics, mothers with younger children, and one way or the other she was in a position to steadiness attending to know everybody, door knock each home in her district, whereas elevating two youngsters,” she continued on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Klobuchar mentioned she was at a dinner with Hortman the night time earlier than a gunman impersonating a police officer killed her and her husband in an act officers are calling a “politically motivated assassination.”
A large manhunt continues Sunday for the suspect, who officers have recognized as 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter.
The suspect additionally shot State Senator John A. Hoffman, a fellow Democrat, and his spouse, Yvette, in a separate assault at their house early Saturday morning.
Klobuchar mentioned Sunday that the couple was “hanging in there.”
She mentioned that Hoffman may have “extra surgical procedures,” however he’s presently in steady situation.
Klobuchar mentioned that authorities imagine the suspect may nonetheless be within the Midwest, and that they’ve put out an alert in South Dakota.
“We imagine he is someplace within the neighborhood and that they will discover him,” Klobuchar mentioned.
Klobuchar emphasised that if anyone within the public spots the suspect, they need to “not strategy him.”
“My concern is that this man goes to come back up towards simply an harmless, attempt to take their automotive, attempt to enter their home proper now,” Klobuchar mentioned.
“Loads of the political leaders in our state have acquired further safety, however not the innocents on the market,” she added.
Authorities found a “manifesto” within the suspect’s automotive that included a number of names of officers and lawmakers.
Klobuchar mentioned that she has acquired extra safety with out her request.
