Hundreds of people, some wiped candles or carrying flowers in front of the memorial, gathered outside the Capitol building in Minnesota on Wednesday evening to remember a prominent deputy of the state and her husband who was shot in their home.
As a five -year -old copper of the Minnesota Orchestra, the governor of the state, Tim and Alz, wiped tears and attended the assembly of the former House spokesperson, Melissa Hortmann and her husband, Mark, who were killed early on Saturday in the stabbings of Northern Minneapolis.
The governor of the state of Minnesota Tim, Alzal, his wife, Join and Alz, attend the protest stand in the light of candlestick for former House Speaker Melissa Hortmann and her husband Mark.
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Kulin Hortmann, the son of Hortmanz, embraced and put a picture of his parents in the memorial.
The memorial, which grew up outside the Capitol after the killings, flowers, American flags, pictures and sticky notes with messages such as, “Thank you for the belief in me always and in Minnesota” and “We got this from here. Thank you for everything.”
On Wednesday, the protest also included an original American drum circle, a rhetoric, and a crowd singing “Grazing Grace”.
About the assembly, there was a heavy presence of the police, as the law is prohibited from the streets leading to the Capitol and the state forces that stand.
The event did not include a program to speak and the attendees were directed to not bring signs of any kind.
The man accused of the Federal Court and the State Court of the Killing of Hortmanz, Vans Powlet, also accused of shooting another democratic legislator, Senator John Hoffman, his wife, Evitte, at their home a few miles away in Champlin. They survived and recovered. Federal prosecutors refused to predict the motive.
Potler’s lawyers refused to comment on the charges.
Hortman has served as the Supreme Democratic Commander in the House of Representatives since 2017, and six years of speaker, starting in 2019. According to a power -participating deal after the 2024 elections left the Council, her title became speaking about Emerita and became Republican Lisa Demouth.
Walz Hortman described as his closest political ally and “the most dependent spokesman in the history of the state.”
Hortmanz was a graduate of the University of Minnesota, who held a mid -day memorial gathering on the Minynabolis campus.
During the event, Rebecca Knngham, President of the University, spoke about the sadness and anger that people are wrestling with questions about how things reach this point.
“I have no answers to these questions, but I know that finding answers to society together as we are today,” she said.
Hortmans’s funeral information has not been announced.
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