{"id":266950,"date":"2026-06-15T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266950\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:06:09","slug":"brooklyn-park-neighbors-remember-melissa-and-mark-hortman-on-the-1-year-anniversary-of-their-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266950\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Park neighbors remember Melissa and Mark Hortman on the 1-year anniversary of their passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Park, the city <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/melissa-hortman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa and Mark Hortman<\/a> called home, is remembering the couple on the one-year anniversary of their passing.<\/p>\n<p>On a road near the Hortmans\u2019 house, neighbors have placed several signs in memory of the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Christen put up a sign in front of her home a year ago after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/minnesota-lawmakers-pay-tribute-on-1-year-anniversary-of-lawmaker-attacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota lawmakers pay tribute on 1-year anniversary of lawmaker attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important to remember her forever,\u201d Christen said. \u201cRemembering the good and not the horrible thing. Not the act that happened, but the good that she brought to the community and to the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/?p=3684158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u2018Kind and generous\u2019: Minnesotans remember Mark Hortman, family dog killed in lawmaker shootings<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christen\u2019s daughter lives across the street from the Hortmans and met Melissa several times.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/?p=3952414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u2018The worst year of all of our lives\u2019: How the Hortman family is healing 1 year after tragic loss<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had a wonderful garden, and she was so open and friendly,\u201d Hortman said. \u201cWhenever Sara and I would walk over there, she was so open, and she loved talking about her plants and her garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night, Christen and a group of neighbors remembered Melissa. They held a margarita party, Melissa\u2019s favorite drink, and lit a candle in her honor.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/?p=3952081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn Park police will increase patrols around the 1-year anniversary of lawmaker attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/brooklyn-park\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Park<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/joe-mazan\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Mazan<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/lawmakers-shot\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawmakers Shot<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/melissa-hortman\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Hortman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Park, the city Melissa and Mark Hortman called home, is remembering the couple on the one-year anniversary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5796,103218,17974,81033,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-266950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-park","tag-joe-mazan","tag-lawmakers-shot","tag-melissa-hortman","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}