Minnesota lawmaker killed on Saturday served with compassion, governor says

  Melissa Hortman – the senior Democratic state assemblywoman and former assembly speaker in Minnesota who was fatally shot along with her husband on Saturday – was remembered by Governor Tim Walz as someone with “grace, compassion, and tirelessness.” Melissa Hortman – the senior Democratic state assemblywoman and former assembly speaker in Minnesota who was fatally shot along with her husband on Saturday – was remembered by Governor Tim Walz as someone with “grace, compassion, and tirelessness.”