Mass Shooting: Minnesota State House Speaker Melissa Hortman & Husband, Mark, Brutally Assassinated

This is an active scene: details can be quickly added and removed as facts & observations change. If you live in Minnesota and in the area of the police manhunt, officials are warning you to NOT answer your doors if a single police officer tries to get inside.

At least one police impersonator and another accomplice are believed to have targeted MN House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband. Both Hortmans have been murdered.

Senator John Hoffman and Hoffman’s wife, also brutally shot multiple times but are in the hospital. Governor Tim Walz stated he’s “cautiously optimistic” that they will survive.

This will be updated as more facts are learned.

3:30PM 6/14/2025 update: a person of interest is being named as 57-year-old Vance Boelter. From Dan Bongino, Boelter may have been a political appointee of Tim Walz (MN Governor). Police are still in pairs, but there is now a second person believed to be involved so the earlier message not to answer the door for lone officers is I guess still in limbo. A manifesto was found when they found Boelter’s car: it had “NO KINGS” flyers and a manifesto.

Still breaking as we speak! Again, this will be updated as facts come to light.

Image credit: By Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan – Gov-signing-selects-044, PDM-owner, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132396453