In a tragic incident, Minnesota House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot in their Brooklyn Park home on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Amid the investigation going on, a video of Melissa Hortman from hours before being shot and killed has surfaced on social media, where Hortman is seen breaking down in tears. The video has not gone viral.
The viral video shows Hortman crying after siding with Republicans on cutting healthcare access for undocumented immigrants. According to NDTV, officials said that the 57-year-old Democrat and her husband were killed in a 'politically motivated' shooting.
The viral clip that has surfaced on social media is an emotional clip of the former Minnesota House Speaker, who defended her controversial vote siding with Republicans to cut healthcare access for undocumented immigrants, saying that she did what leaders do.
"I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota," she added. On the other hand, Melissa was only Democrat to vote in favour of the measure and since the video has surfaced on the internet, it quickly grabbed attention of netizens.
On Saturday, the former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman, 55, and her husband were killed, and Sen. John Hoffman, 60, who was also a Democrat, and his wife were found wounded at different places on June 14.
The disturbing details were revealed from an audio of emergency calls. In the audio, it is quite clear that Hoffman had 'bleeding going on in his stomach,' while another has medical dispatchers from Hortman's residence saying one victim was going into cardiac arrest, while the other had passed away before they arrived, as per the files obtained by TMZ.
They also noted that he was "bleeding in his stomach" and that his abdomen was ¡°very distended.¡± They also reported that a woman at the scene had suffered three gunshot injuries¡ªtwo in the abdomen and one in the arm.