FARGO – Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed early this morning; State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were also shot.

Democratic-NPL Chair Adam Goldwyn said, “We stand with the Hortman family as they grieve and with Sen. Hoffman and his wife as they heal. Generations of Americans have fought and died for our democracy, and the Hortmans now join such great Americans as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. as those who have given their lives for our country. Americans have never cowered in the face of domestic terrorism, and we won’t do so now. Melissa Hortman gave her life for our country, and we will carry on the struggle for a more perfect union with her in our hearts.”