Parents of Slain Minn. Lawmaker: Division Must End

In their first interview since police say their daughter was assassinated over the weekend, the parents of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman described the “mind-numbing pain” they are going through as they relive the events of Saturday morning.

Further, Hortman’s mother, Linda Haluptzok, told CBS News that “the division has to end.”

Linda and her husband, Harry Haluptzok, gave the interview at the home of their late daughter Melissa and her husband, Mark, as they stopped to pick up clothes for the couple to be buried in.

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