The gunman who shot and killed Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband at their house additionally killed their household’s beloved rescue canine, in response to a fellow lawmaker.
The Former Democratic Home Speaker, 55, and her husband Mark, 58, had been allegedly gunned down early Saturday morning by suspected political murderer Vance Luther Boelter, who additionally wounded state Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse earlier than he was lastly captured Sunday following an intense 43-hour manhunt Sunday.
Boelter additionally allegedly shot the household’s beloved golden retriever, Gilbert, on the Brooklyn Park house.
Erin Koegel, a member of the Minnesota Home since 2017, mentioned one of many first issues Hortman’s youngsters needed to do after the capturing was “put down [Gilbert] after learning their parents had been murdered,” she posted on X.
Hortman spent years doing volunteer work coaching service canine for veterans and was a foster house coach for a neighborhood canine shelter known as Serving to Paws, the place she was launched to Gilbert.
Serving to Paws posted a message on its Fb web page, together with a 2022 photograph of a Hortman smiling together with her arm round Gilbert.
“Our hearts break for all loss of life,” the animal rescue mentioned.
Boelter, a 57-year-old former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, was arrested in a discipline in rural Minnesota with out incident early Sunday morning, ending the “largest manhunt in the state’s history,” Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley informed reporters.
