Brooklyn Park police were alerted to the overnight break-in at 8 a.m. Wednesday. They discovered that someone had pried plywood off and broken the rear window to enter the Hortmans’ home.

The Twin Cities home where Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot Saturday was broken into overnight Wednesday, police say.Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed in their home in Brooklyn Park,

A break-in has been reported at the home of slain Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, authorities said. After the Saturday morning killings, the house was processed by crime scene investigators and then was boarded up early Sunday, Brooklyn Park police said. On Tuesday, the Hortman family took their valuables from the house, police said.