The deadly, politically motivated shooting in Minnesota has a connection to the Triangle.Mark Hortman, the husband of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman, was a Raleigh native.The Hortmans were shot and killed in an attack at their home in suburban Minneapolis early Saturday.

But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the 2022 elections, when Democrats took control of state

Democratic Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, and House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman were injured in what the governor describes as targeted shootings.