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Thousands of mourners, including former U.S. President Joe Biden, filed through Minnesota's state Capitol Rotunda on Friday (June 27) to pay final respects to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were gunned down by an assassin earlier this month.

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00:00Thousands of mourners, including former U.S. President Joe Biden, filed through Minnesota's
00:05state capitol rotunda on Friday to pay final respects to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman
00:11and her husband Mark, who were gunned down by an assassin earlier this month.
00:16The couple lay in state in St. Paul on the eve of a private funeral set for Saturday
00:22morning, two weeks after a man impersonating a police officer shot them to death at their
00:27home. For several hours, members of the public lined up in a column of mourners stretching
00:33across the front plaza of the state capitol building. Perched between them was an urn bearing
00:38the remains of their golden retriever, Gilbert. The dog, too, was shot in the attack and later
00:44euthanized. The suspect, Vance Boelter, is also accused of shooting and wounding a second Democratic
00:52legislator, State Senator John Hoffman, and his wife Yvette, in their home a few miles away.
00:59The accused was arrested on the night of June 16, following a massive two-day manhunt.

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