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Melissa Hortman’s mother and father discuss slain Minnesota lawmaker and husband in first TV interview

Editorial Board Published June 18, 2025
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The household of Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota lawmaker who was shot and killed alongside along with her husband in what authorities say was a politically motivated assault, remembered the couple as a gifted, humorous and loving pair as they gathered on Tuesday to arrange for his or her funeral.

The Haluptzoks, together with their son, Patrick Haluptzok, stopped by the Hortmans’ dwelling on Tuesday to choose up garments for the couple to be buried in. They sat hand in hand as they spoke in regards to the couple.

“It’s been very hard the last few days,” Patrick Haluptzok mentioned. “In what seems unfair and tragic, the way her last night was spent. We’re just trying to get by.”

Regulation enforcement officers say the capturing suspect, 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, went to the Hortmans’ dwelling within the early morning of Saturday, June 14, after he allegedly shot the Hoffmans. Brooklyn Park law enforcement officials who went to the Hortmans’ dwelling confronted a gunman pretending to be a police officer, who exchanged gunshots with the true officers and fled after killing the state consultant and her husband, authorities mentioned.

A search of the suspect’s automobile discovered a doc that named different lawmakers and officers, police mentioned.

Harry Haluptzok remembered the horror of that Saturday morning as “beyond reality.” 

“We knew that they had been shot, but we couldn’t find out where they were. We chased around hospitals and we couldn’t find them,” Linda Haluptzok mentioned. 

“We looked at each other and realized the reason they weren’t in the hospital was because they weren’t alive. And that was hard to figure out, and then we got the call,” Harry Haluptzok mentioned. “It was horrible.”

Linda Haluptzok mentioned whereas she was looking for out what occurred to Gilbert, the Hortmans’ golden retriever that was additionally killed in the course of the capturing, she advised law enforcement officials, “Please go out and find that b-word and shoot him dead.”

“And I’m not a woman of violence, but I could not believe it. I’ve come to my senses since then,” she mentioned. “I don’t wish people dead, but I would not, I could not go to the arraignment.”

After an almost 43-hour-long manhunt, police arrested Boelter close to his dwelling in Inexperienced Isle, Sibley County. He’s charged with two counts of second-degree homicide, which prosecutors say shall be upgraded to first-degree homicide, in addition to two counts of tried homicide. Boelter can also be dealing with six federal expenses, together with stalking and homicide. 

“But then the police got their man, but we didn’t get my sister back. My mom didn’t get her baby back, and it just hurts,” he mentioned.

A makeshift memorial to state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, is seen on the Minnesota State Capitol constructing in St. Paul on June 16, 2025.

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Whereas the ache is “mind-numbing,” Linda Haluptzok mentioned that, in a manner, Melissa and Mark Hortman are collectively perpetually. As she was going via her daughter’s belongings, she discovered her pockets, and she or he mentioned what she discovered inside completely represented who Melissa was.

“It just had her ID and a credit card, but tucked in there with that was a prayer to St. Francis Assisi,” Linda Haluptzok mentioned. “‘Make me a channel of your peace.’ … She meant every word that was in that prayer.”

Harry Haluptzok mentioned his daughter handled everybody with respect, and he remembered his son-in-law as somebody who was dynamic and vigorous. Mark Hortman was a diver, and he liked constructing issues; he was engaged on wooden and metallic initiatives.

“He was as dynamic as she was. We miss him as much as we miss her,” Harry Haluptzok mentioned.

The couple met whereas volunteering as mentors in Washington, D.C., the household recalled. Three months later, they have been engaged. The Hortmans had two youngsters collectively, Sophie and Colin. Linda Haluptzok mentioned she and Harry have been those who known as them to allow them to know in regards to the lack of their mother and father.

In a written assertion launched Monday evening, Sophie and Colin Hortman mentioned they’re “devastated and heartbroken.” They advised just a few issues folks may do to honor the reminiscence of their mother and father, equivalent to plant a tree, pet a canine, bake one thing and share it with somebody, and “stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace.”

“Those are the things they learned from their mom and dad,” Linda Haluptzok mentioned, including that the household all cried as they learn the assertion to them the evening earlier than. “It was like our daughter was still alive, and these thoughts that she had over the years and they kind of summarized it and it was so wonderful.”

When requested what adjustments they’d prefer to see following the tragedy, Linda Haluptzok mentioned: “The division needs to end.”

“There was a time, not that long ago, when we could all work together … and whatever steps we need to get back there. I don’t know how we do it, but we all have to try. And if it’s one person at a time, we have to make it happen and we can’t let hatred and division rule the actions that are happening now.”

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