Melissa Hortman, Minnesota
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Melissa and Mark Hortman were fatally shot at their Brooklyn Park home Saturday morning. Their children released a statement Monday night with seven ways you can honor their legacy.
Melissa and Mark Hortman served their community in many ways, including training dogs to be service animals for people in need.
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"The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else.”
The children of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman are speaking out on their parents' murders. “They were the bright lights at the center of our lives, and we can’t believe they are gone," Sophie and Colin Hortman wrote in a statement obtained by PEOPLE Monday.
Tuesday, June 17, at 4:30 p.m. CT, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith will deliver remarks on the Senate floor honoring the life and legacy of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
COON RAPIDS, Minnesota — Friends say to know Melissa Hortman was to know her husband ... The popular pool hall was filled with people, and they had a moment of silence in Hortman's honor. “He was a quiet guy, a friendly guy,” Johnson said.
Tributes are pouring in on social media calling Mark an avid pool player on a house league in Coon Rapids. Minnesotans who worked with him call him kind and generous.
Sophie and Colin Hortman are responding to the fatal shooting of their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman.
Before Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman became a nationally recognized figure following her fatal shooting death alongside her husband Saturday morning — an act public officials have called an act