In the US state of Minnesota, the former spokeswoman for the House of Representatives, Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot. A second parliamentary member and his wife were also seriously injured, as Governor Tim Walz announced on Saturday. He spoke about a targeted political act.
The MPs in parliament and her husband were killed in their house in a suburb of Minneapolis. Senator John Hoffman of the Democratic Party and his wife were shot in her house in another suburb and seriously injured. According to media reports, their condition is crucial, the two had to be operated on.
According to the researchers, the perpetrator was disguised as a police officer and called the doors of the doorbell. The two attacks immediately took place in a row. The first incident was in Hoffman’s house. At Hortman, the officials found a car with flashy lights and a man who pronounced as a police officer. The alleged perpetrator immediately opened the fire, but could escape after a change in shooting. Now he is being sought with high pressure.
Hoffman and Hortman were part of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, a local subgroup of the Democratic Party. Hoffmann has been a senator and political adviser since 2012, Hortman has been in parliament since 2004 and the most recent leader of the Democrats.
Source: Krone
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