Millbrook High School community mourns loss of classmate killed in Minnesota shooting

AJ Richards went to West Millbrook Magnet Middle School and Millbrook Magnet High School with Mark Hortman, the husband of Democratic former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman. The Hortmans were shot and killed early Saturday in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
Posted 6/15/2025, 10:20:59 PM Updated 6/16/2025, 3:09:01 AM

AND ALSO IN TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT

INDEXES WILL BE AROUND COMING

UP IN JUST A BIT.

>> RIGHT NOW AT 10, THE MANHUNT

CONTINUES FOR THIS MAN RIGHT

HERE. 57 YEAR-OLD VANCE BOLTER

IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING 2

MINNESOTA LAWMAKERS AND THEIR

SPOUSES KILLING 2 PEOPLE.

THE FBI HAS ANNOUNCED A $50,000

REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING

TO HIS ARREST AND MINNESOTA

STATE REPRESENTATIVE MELISSA

HORTMAN AND HER HUSBAND MARK

WERE BOTH KILLED IN THE

SHOOTING OUR AND WAS A RALEIGH

NATIVE GRADUATING FROM UNC

CHAPEL HILL AND NC STATE

WRAL'S. HEIDI KIRK JOINS US

LIVE FROM OUTSIDE MILLBROOK

HIGH SCHOOL UNATTENDED HEIDI.

WORKMAN'S LOSS IS PERSONAL FOR

SO MANY PEOPLE ACROSS THE

TRIANGLE.

>> WHEN CARLY, THIS IS WHERE

MOORE CORBIN SPENT THE EARLY

YEARS OF HIS LIFE RIGHT HERE

ON CAMPUS AT MILLBROOK HIGH

SCHOOL GRADUATING FROM HERE

IN 1984, AND NOW MANY OF HIS

CLASSMATES ACROSS THE TRIANGLE

AND BEYOND MOURNING HIS LOSS.

>> THIS IS HOW AJ RICHARDS

REMEMBERS HER FRIEND MARK

ORTMAN. THE LAST TIME SHE SAW

HIM CAPTURED IN THIS PHOTO FROM

A 2014 MILLBROOK HIGH SCHOOL

CLASS REUNION IN THE FRONT ROW

IN THE DRESS AND HE'S LIKE

RIGHT BEHIND ME. AND I'M JUST

LIKE, YEAH, SOME ARE SMELL

ALWAYS SMILING. ALWAYS JOYFUL.

ALWAYS KINDA. SHE SAYS THAT'S

HOW HE'S BEING REMEMBERED BY

THE REST OF THE CLASS OF 1984.

>> I COULD NOT MARK HAVE ANY

ENEMIES. HE WAS JUST THE NYCES

YOUNG MAN. HE'S VERY SMART.

AND HE JUST WAS A GOOD FRIEND

TO EVERYONE.

>> SHE SAYS SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE

IT WHEN SHE HEARD HIS NAME ON

TELEVISION NEXT TO HIS WIFE,

FORMER DEMOCRATIC MINNESOTA

HOUSE SPEAKER MELISSA HORTMAN

KILLED IN WHAT'S BEING CALLED A

POLITICALLY MOTIVATED

ASSASSINATION. SHE RECALLS ONE

OF THEIR LAST CONVERSATIONS.

YOU REMEMBER HIM TELLING ME

VIA FACEBOOK THAT HAS WON.

HIS WIFE IS RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

>> AND HE WAS SO VERY HAPPY AND

SO VERY PROUD OF HER. RIGHT

NOW. RICHARD IS CLINGING TO

THAT MEMORY IN CONNECTING WITH

OTHERS SHARING THE THINGS THEY

LOVED ABOUT THE HORSEMEN'S TO

LOSE A FRIEND THAT WE'VE GROWN

UP TOGETHER AND JUST HAD SO

MANY FUN THINGS WE DID TOGETHER

SCHOOL AS A GROUP. EVERYONE

IS VERY MUCH GRIEVING RIGHT

NOW.

>> ALL ACROSS THE TRIANGLE,

THEIR LOSSES. SO HEAVY ON SO

MANY HEARTS.

>> NOW, RICHARDS DID TELL US

THAT THIS IS REALLY CONNECTED.

THE CLASS OF 1984, IN

PARTICULAR. THEY'RE LOOKING

FOR A WAY TO COME TOGETHER IN

THE WEEKS AND MONTHS TO COME

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