When the police approached the house of Democratic MP Melissa Hortman from Minnesota in the early Saturday morning, the officials saw a vehicle in the driveway. It looked like a police off -road vehicle, with the blue light switched off. But the supposed civil servant who stepped out of the house opened the fire to the police officers and finally fled out of the back door. In the house, the officials Hortman and their husbands found Mark, killed by shots.
The police chief of Brooklyn City, Mark Bruley, described the situation later in a press conference. The alleged perpetrator wore a protective vest, a taser and a police brand. If he were in this room, Bruley added, the person would be kept “without a doubt” a real police officer. The large -scale search for the perpetrator, who is supposed to be on foot on the run, was initially unsuccessful on Saturday. In view of the uncertain situation, Bruley emphasized that police officers are currently approaching at least two. The population in the area was called to stay at home.
In the late Saturday, the FBI exposes a reward for references to the continued fleeting perpetrator. “We believe that he will try to leave the region,” said the head of the Minnesota criminal police, Drew Evans. The FBI suspended a reward of up to $ 50,000 (43,000 euros) for clues that lead to the arrest of the suspect. Evans had previously warned that the alleged assassin was “armed and dangerous”. His possible motif is still unclear, he is still on the run.
Who is the attacker?
According to investigators, the alleged perpetrator is a 57 -year -old man who works for a security company in the Minneapoli area. The police released a suspected perpetrator's search for a search and asked the population for help. According to a short biography on the company's website, the man has a doctorate and “has extensive knowledge of security, which he has acquired through numerous experiences on site and through training at private security companies and the US military”.
Accordingly, the alleged perpetrator worked in the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip and in Africa. In addition, he is said to have worked for an American oil refinery company and a food company. On another website it says about him that he lives in Minnesota, is married and have two children. A man of the same name was appointed to a federal body for labor market development in 2019 by the democratic governor Tim Walz.
Senator and wife seriously injured
The fact that the police drove past Hortman at half past two was because an emergency call from the House of the Democratic Senator of Parliament in Minnesota, John Hoffman, had been set off an hour and a half before. An attacker – probably the same perpetrator – shot him and his wife Yvette several times; The two survived seriously injured.
Governor Walz later said in a press conference that the two were operated on, and one was “carefully optimistic” that they would survive the assassination. Relatives reported to a local transmitter that a shot had just missed the heart of the senator. During the attack, Yvette Hoffman thrown himself on her daughter, who was in the middle of twenty and was in the house with his parents.
Walz spoke of an “indescribable tragedy” that had taken place in Minnesota. The act is an “apparently politically motivated assassination attempt”. According to investigators, a manifesto found in the alleged perpetrator contained a list with names “many MPs and other officials, among other things the Hortmans and Hoffmans. Police chief Bruley insured on Saturday morning that all of them were informed on this list and received special safety precautions. According to the broadcaster CNN, almost 70 people were also mentioned, including abortion doctors and Parliamentary members from other states.
The Minnesota State Patrol published a photo from the car of the alleged perpetrator, on which white flyers can be seen with the inscription “No Kings”. In view of the large military parade in Washington on Saturday evening, which falls on President Donald Trump's 79th birthday, organizers had called for “No Kings” protests across the country. A total of 2000 events are planned. However, the contribution of the police in Minnesota said that the public was called “from caution” not to take part in the planned demonstrations in Minnesota.
President Donald Trump wrote a good two hours after the press conference on his “Truth Social” platform that he was informed about the “terrible firear attack”, “which is apparently a targeted attack on MPs of the state”. Justice Minister Pam Bondi and the FBI determined in the case and would follow everyone involved “with full hardness”. Such “cruel violence” is not tolerated in the United States. Former President Joe Biden wrote on X that hatred and extremism should not be offered a safe port in the United States, “and as a nation we have to face political violence”.
Melissa Hortman, the leading democrat and long -time spokeswoman for the Minnesota House of Representatives, was elected as a member for the first time in 2004. The 55 -year -old lawyer campaigned, among other things, to anchor the right to abortion in the constitution of the state and for free school lunches for children. She and her husband leave two children. The 60 -year -old Senator John Hoffman has been sitting in the state of the state since 2013. Last year he wrote in a letter to his voters that it was his “trademark” to tackle things with cross -party cooperation.
