MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman will lie in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda on Friday while the man charged with killing her and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, is due in court.

Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog, Gilbert, will lie in state on Friday, nearly two weeks after they were killed by a gunman inside their Brooklyn Park home,

Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects to former Minnesota House Speaker and Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were assassinated in their home in what authorities are calling was a politically motivated killing.