the staff of the Ridgewood blog
BROOKLYN PARK, MN — a shocking and politically motivated act of violence rocked Minnesota on the morning of Saturday, June 8, as former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were gunned down in their home in what authorities are calling an assassination. Just five miles away, Senator John Hoffman and his wife were seriously injured in a similar attack at their residence.
