Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said American Democratic politician Melissa Hortman, a former state house speaker, and her husband was killed in a politically outstanding shooting.
Walz announced on Saturday, “My good friends and colleagues, speaker Melissa and her husband, Mark were killed early this morning.”
Another legalist, the state senator John Hoffman and his wife Yett were shot and injured in a separate attack, the governor said.
Hey that the authorities remain “carefully optimistic” that they would recover.
“What is the act of targeted political violence,” Walz said. “Peaceful discourse is the foundation of our democracy. We do not solve our differences with violence or at gunpoint.”
What do we know about the event
For Walz, the gunman Haufman and his wife went to Hortman’s house after shooting several times.
Meanwhile, law enforcement officials said the gunman was prepared as a police officer. Hey survived after setting fire with the police, who went to Hortman’s house.
A major discovery was going on for the suspect, who ran away on foot after firing on the police and leaving a vehicle.
According to law enforcement officials, the authorities found a “manifesto” in the vehicle. Both Hortman and Hoffman were mentioned in the writing of the suspect with other MLAs and officials.
US President Donald Trump said he was “briefed on terrible shoots in Minnesota, which seems to be a target attack against state MPs.”
“The violence discovered in the United States will not be tolerated,” he said in a statement.
