STREET. Paul, Minnesota, – Thousands of mourners, including former US President Joe Biden, filed on Friday in Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda to give up the final respect killed by lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who was shot by Assassin at the beginning of this month.
The couple lay in the state in St. Paul on the eve of the private funeral set on Saturday morning, two weeks after the man was released on the police officer shot to death in their house in what the authorities consider politically motivated murder.
For several hours, the members of the public lined up in a column of mourning, who stretched over the front square of the State building Capitol and along the neighboring boulevard.
After entering the building, people with a single ensemble walked around Hortmans’ flower coffins. Next to his coffins was a portrait of each of them.
Among them was the urn bearing the remnants of their golden retriever, Gilbert, along with a pet photo. Also the dog was shot during the attack and later euthanized.
Biden arrived at Statehouse late in the afternoon. After the public was cleaned from the rotunda for security purposes, the democratic former president was banned himself. He stopped in front of the missiles for a while and then stepped out of the building.
After his departure, the rotunda was reopened for the public and the parade of the mourning continued. Even more people joined the line out and hoped for a chance. The viewing was scheduled to end at 17:00 local time.
Representative Hortman, the preferably valuable Democrat in the House in Minnesota, became the first woman to lie in the state in St. Paul Capitol Rotunda. Her husband was considered the first person other than a military figure or a public official who was so honored.
The suspect of their 14th June, Vance Boelter, 57, is also charged with the shooting and injury of the second democratic legislator, the Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette in their house a few kilometers away. ”
The accused shooter was arrested on the night of June 16 after a massive two -day fall, which was the largest in state history.
Boelter faces state and federal murder accusations. According to prosecutors, investigators received notebooks from his car and residence, which contained the names of dozens of democratic legislators, along with advocates of abortion rights.
Shooting has developed against the background of growing political violence in the US at a time of extreme social and guerrilla polarization.
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