Assassinations

There was one assasination this summer (2025) that was truly tragic. It was not the one for the right wing provocateur that got so much attention. It was this one that the president of the united states claimed he had not hear of. That sounds about right. See if you can spot the difference.

2025 Shooting of Minnesota legislators June 14 2025

On Saturday, two state lawmakers from Minnesota were gunned down in their homes in what Governor Tim Walz called a "politically motivated assassination" attempt. The attacks left one politician dead and the other seriously injured.

The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, was taken into custody in rural woodland after a day-long manhunt. He has been charged with multiple counts of murder at the state and federal level.

During a press conference on Monday, officials said that Mr Boelter allegedly also attempted to kill two other state lawmakers on Saturday.

State representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their home, the governor said.

She had served in the Minnesota House of Representatives for 20 years, and was speaker of the chamber from 2019 to 2025.

Under her tenure, Minnesota Democrats passed a variety of liberal legislation that included the expansion of abortion rights and legalisation of recreational marijuana.

She was also known for working across the aisle. In one of her final votes before the attack, sided with Republicans to support a bill provision that would make the state's undocumented population ineligible for the state's low-income healthcare programme.

State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also shot multiple times and injured, but survived.

During the shooting Yvette Hoffman threw herself on their adult daughter Hope Hoffman to shield her from the bullets, a relative has said.

After surviving the hail of bullets that wounded her parents, Hope Hoffman then called local authorities who rushed to the scene and saved her parents' lives.

Both lawmakers who were shot are Democrats.

Mrs Hoffman shared a statement on social media after the incident, saying she and her husband were "incredibly lucky to be alive" after they were hit by a combined total of 17 bullets.

"John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods," Mrs Hoffman wrote.

She also expressed sympathy for the loss of her colleagues in the state house.

"We are gutted and devastated by the loss of Melissa and Mark. We have no words. There is never a place for this kind of political hate," she wrote.