Hortman was fatally shot two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer in an attack that Minnesota’s chief federal prosecutor has called an assassination.

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman will be laid to rest alongside her husband on Saturday, weeks after she was killed in what’s been called a politically motivated assassination

The funeral for former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, was held Saturday morning at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, after the couple were killed in what officials have described as a politically motivated assassination.