WARNING: Police told Brooklyn Park residents and nearby neighbors to NOT answer their doors for a lone police officer.

State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed and State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot and wounded in “targeted shootings” in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, two neighboring suburban cities 10 to 20 miles outside Minneapolis.

The Minnesota senator and his wife were injured by gunfire in the attack on June 14 Minnesota Senator John Hoffman’s wife Yvette Hoffman threw herself in front of the couple's daughter when they were attacked by gunfire on June 14 Gov.

Hortman and Hoffman shootings: Timeline of events so far originally appeared on Bring Me The News. Melissa Hortman, the Speaker Emeritus of the Minnesota House, was killed along with her husband in a suspected politically-motivated assassination early Saturday.