Rep. Scalise among multiple shot at congressional baseball practice in VA.
New reports are coming in about a shooting at a YMCA baseball field where GOP Congress members were playing in Del Ray, Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The first tweet about the incident came from Benjamin Childers, a witness to the incident who has an apartment overlooking the baseball fields.
Childers also began a live broadcast following the incident, stating that he had 3 Congressional members sheltered inside his apartment as he filmed the scene from his window. According to ABC7, there are multiple injuries and one person has been flown to a nearby hospital.
Here’s what you need to know:
► The Shooter is down & had a rifle
►At 7:15 a.m. a gunman with a rifle began firing at a Republican baseball practice in Alexandria. According to reports, the shooter is down but caused multiple injuries, including injuring Steve Scalise, the current United States House of Representatives Majority Whip and representative for Louisiana’s 1st congressional district, and an aide. Scalise was shot in the hip, according to Fox News.
►Two Capitol police officers were also shot, according to WUSA9.
► Fox reported that Scalise’s security detail killed the gunman.
►Del Ray Is a Neighborhood South of the Pentagon
► Police say the victims are being transported to the hospital.
►Rep. Scalise expected to be okay
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