On June 14, 2017, during a practice session for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity in Alexandria, Virginia, James Hodgkinson shot U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. A ten-minute shootout took place between Hodgkinson and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police before officers fatally shot Hodgkinson. Hodgkinson was a left-wing activist from Belleville, Illinois, while Scalise was a Republican member of Congress. The Virginia Attorney General concluded Hodgkinson’s attack was ‘fueled by rage against Republican legislators’
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On June 14, 2017, during a practice session for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity in Alexandria, Virginia, James Hodgkinson shot U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, U. S. Capitol Police officer Crystal Griner, congressional aide Zack Barth, and lobbyist Matt Mika. A ten-minute shootout took place between Hodgkinson and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police before officers fatally shot Hodgkinson, who died from his wounds later that day. Hodgkinson was a left-wing activist from Belleville, Illinois, while Scalise was a Republican member of Congress. The Virginia Attorney General concluded Hodgkinson’s attack was \”an act of terrorism… fueled by rage against Republican legislators\”. The shooting took place at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria,. Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D. C. There were 24 Republican congressmen who had gathered at the park to practice for the next day’s Congressional Baseball game for Charity, an annual, bipartisan event first held in 1909. According to Representatives Ron DeSantis and Jeff Duncan, they were approached before the shooting at the practice by a man who asked whether Republicans or Democrats were practicing on the field. The practice had been underway for about half an hour when Hodgkinson began firing. When Hodgkinson opened fire, two of the officers rushed onto the field to protect the congressmen and the other civilians.
Several witnesses said their lives were saved by the presence of the Capitol Police, who were there because of Scalise’s position as House majority whip. The Capitol Police engaged Hodgkinson in a gunfight and kept him pinned down, preventing him from continuing to fire on the unarmed baseball players. Witnesses estimated between 50 and 100 shots were fired during the shootout, which lasted about 10 minutes before Hodg Atkinson was shot by Alexandria Police officers Nicole Battaglia, Alexander Jensen and Kevin Jobe and Capitol Police officers Bailey and Griner. Rep. Mo Brooks used his belt as a tourniquet to help stop bleeding for a staffer who had been shot in the calf. After the shooting ended, Brooks and Rep. Brad Wenstrup—a podiatrist and U. s. Army Reservist who served with the U. S. Army’s 344th Combat Support Hospital—were able to assist Scalise. He received multiple blood transfusions and underwent several surgeries to repair internal damage and stop bleeding. His condition was initially listed as ‘critical’ but he was improved to’serious’ on June 15. The Republicans had held practices at the same time and place each morning before the game each morning for the past two years.
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