Police investigating reported break-in at house of slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman

The Twin Cities house the place Minnesota Home Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have been fatally shot Saturday was damaged into in a single day Wednesday, police say.

Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark have been killed of their house in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday in what Gov. Tim Walz known as a “political assassination.”

Brooklyn Park police say the house had been boarded up early Sunday after investigators processed all the proof on the scene, and members of the family had eliminated “gadgets of worth” from the residence on Tuesday.

“It was found that the plywood protecting the rear window of the house had been pried off and the window damaged to realize entry,” police mentioned in a press release launched late Wednesday morning.

Police say crime scene investigators searched the house once more, and members of the family say “they do not consider something was lacking.” Police are nonetheless looking for the suspect.  

Anybody with data on the break-in, together with neighborhood residents who’ve surveillance cameras, is requested to contact the Brooklyn Park Police Division at 763-493-8222.

The person accused of killing the Hortmans, 57-year-old Vance Boelter, is in custody and going through federal and state homicide fees following a 36-plus-hour manhunt that authorities say was the biggest of its sort in state historical past.

Investigators accuse Boelter of additionally capturing and critically wounding Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse Yvette about an hour earlier than killing the Hortmans.  

Authorities additionally consider Boelter visited the properties of two different state lawmakers within the metro that very same morning, one in every of whom wasn’t house. The opposite, Sen. Ann Relaxation, was at house, however Boelter was reportedly scared off by a police officer earlier than approaching the residence.

In an interview with CBS Information, Melissa Hortman’s mom, Lisa Haluptzok, mentioned the ache of her daughter’s dying is “mind-numbing.”

“It has been very laborious the previous couple of days,” her brother Patrick Haluptzok mentioned. “In what appears unfair and tragic, the way in which her final evening was spent. We’re simply making an attempt to get by.”

A candlelight vigil for the Hortmans is ready for Wednesday night on the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., based on Minnesota Home officers.

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Lilia Luciano and

Anthony Bettin

contributed to this report.