Overview

• Former President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz joined over 1,000 mourners on June 28 to honor Melissa and Mark Hortman at a private funeral in Minneapolis.
• Gov. Tim Walz delivered a eulogy praising Hortman as Minnesota’s most consequential House speaker and highlighting her legislative achievements and partnership with her husband.
• On June 27 the couple and their golden retriever Gilbert lay in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda, marking the first time a woman and a couple received that honor.
• Vance Boelter, accused of posing as a police officer to carry out the June 14 shootings, remains in federal custody facing state and federal charges including first-degree murder and attempted murder.
• The June 14 attack killed the Hortmans in their Brooklyn Park home and left Sen. John Hoffman and his wife wounded in a related shooting in Champlin.