Minnesota Rep. Hortman was a 'fantastic person,' classmate says

(NewsNation) — Kind, fantastic and affable is however a erstwhile person and classmate described Minnesota authorities Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was killed Saturday successful what Gov. Tim Walz has called a "politically motivated assassination."

"She was 1 of those radical who, erstwhile you met her, she became a friend," Roger Misso said connected "Morning successful America." He met Hortman astatine Harvard University's Kennedy School.

Hortman, a Democrat, graduated from Harvard with her master's grade successful 2018.

"She was already an elected authoritative and went to Harvard to larn however to beryllium a amended nationalist servant for Minnesota, truthful we each looked up to her," Misso said. "She was 1 of the kindest radical I've ever met, and she helped virtually everybody."

Hortman and her hubby were killed Saturday by alleged shooter Vance Luther Boelter, 57, who constabulary said posed arsenic an serviceman astatine their home. Authorities said Boelter besides changeable Democratic Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, some of whom survived. Police captured Boelter pursuing what authorities called the largest manhunt successful Minnesota history.

"Political unit is simply a sickness, and it's thing that we request to halt successful this country," Misso said. "She was a fantastic person, and the information that she is nary longer with america is simply a calamity beyond measure. The governmental unit needs to stop. It needs to halt present earlier we suffer anymore American treasures similar Melissa."