Police are investigating a burglary at the boarded-up home of a slain Minnesota lawmaker just days after she and her husband were shot to death there.
Around 8 a.m. on June 18, police in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, “were alerted to an overnight break-in” at the home of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, a police department statement said.
A suspect in the shooting, Vance Luther Boelter, 57, is jailed awaiting further court action. He is accused of killing the Hortmans after allegedly shooting another state lawmaker, Sen. John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, who both survived multiple wounds. No motive has been released, but the two lawmakers were both Democrats, and authorities have said they found evidence that Boelter was targeting others also. He allegedly visited two other unnamed lawmakers’ homes between the shootings at the Hoffmans’ and the Hortmans’ houses….