Local police say someone broke into the house of the late Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was gunned down at her home this past weekend.
Her home was boarded up Sunday after crime scene evidence was removed, the Minneapolis-area Brooklyn Park Police Department said in a release, and her family members took valuables and other items from the house on Tuesday. A camera was placed in front of the residence by police.
On Wednesday morning, BPPD personnel found the plywood covering a back window had been pried off and the window was broken.
The suspect searched the home, police said, but Hortman’s family doesn’t believe anything was stolen or taken.
“Whoever it was that broke in has no respect for the deceased couple that lived here. It’s a horrible deal that people would come now and desecrate their memory by breaking into the house,” neighbor Geoff Olinyk told the Twin Cities’ WCCO-TV.
Ms. Hortman, a member of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party, and her husband, Mark Hortman, were killed at their home Saturday.
Another Minnesota state legislator and Democratic Farmer Labor Party member, Sen. John Hoffman, was also shot alongside his wife, Yvette, at their home, but the pair survived.
Suspected shooter Vance Boelter was arrested Sunday.
