Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman will lie in state. They were killed in what authorities called a political assassination.

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,

Dave Kamper, Minnesota-based senior state policy strategist at the Economic Policy Institute, interacted with Hortman over the years and marveled at her ability to engage on a human level in the legislative world.