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FBI agents investigate a playground near the baseball field in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, June 15, 2017, the day after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La. was shot during a congressional baseball practice at the park.
A UPS employee opened fire at a San Francisco package delivery facility, killing three employees and then himself as officers closed in, police and the company said. Two other people were wounded.
Washington, June 15, 2017: A rifle-toting US man opened fire Wednesday at about two dozen Republican lawmakers and staff holding a baseball practice ahead of a charity game, shooting a top Republican congressman and three others in a hail of bullets. The shooter -- identified as 66-year-old James Hodgkinson, an apparent supporter of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders angry over President Donald Trump's election -- later died of his injuries in a shootout with police.
Texas Republican Rep. Roger Williams, a player on his party's congressional baseball team, agreed with his colleagues saying that members having firearms would have been better for them when a gunman shot at the team Wednesday morning. Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Bishop, another ball player at the field, said earlier Wednesday that he and his colleagues were "sitting ducks" on the field and Williams agreed telling The Daily Caller at a press conference late Wednesday afternoon: "Well it took the second shot for me to understand what was happening here.
The political climate on social media continues to further divide a country already at odds after last year's presidential election. The man who shot Congressman Steve Scalise and three others Wednesday at a ballpark in Virginia had an extensive history of posting his frustrations on social media before resorting to violence.
The gunman who shot a top GOP congressman and several other people Wednesday at a baseball practice outside the nation's capital had a long history of lashing out at Republicans and recently frightened a neighbor by firing a rifle into a field behind his Illinois home. James T. Hodgkinson, 66, wounded House Rep. Steve Scalise before he was fatally shot by police who had been guarding the House majority whip.
A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers as they practiced for a charity baseball game Wednesday, critically wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and hitting aides and Capitol police as congressmen and others dove for cover. The assailant, who had nursed grievances against President Donald Trump and the GOP, fought a running gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died.
Sources say that President Donald Trump is now calling the House-passed health care bill 'mean' after he helped rescue it. San Francisco police confirm a shooting at a sprawling UPS warehouse and customer service center, but no information on injuries has been released.
U.S. Representative Mike Bost, the Republican representing Illinois' 12th District, said the Belleville man who opened fire at the congressional baseball practice Wednesday morning contacted his office 10 times beginning in June 2016. According to a statement from Bost, James Hodgkinson began contacting the office in June of 2016 to "express his opposition to the Republican agenda in Congress."
Alexandria Police Chief Michael Brown briefs the press on the on-going investigation of the shooting at the GOP baseball practice early this morning in Alexandria, Va. . A witness recounts the scene where Majority Whip Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, congressional staff and members of the Capitol Police were shot.
It was another dark day in America, a humid morning punctuated by horrific violence on a baseball diamond in Alexandria, Va., just minutes from the nation's capital. A lone gunman, James Thomas Hodgkinson, opened fire for several minutes Wednesday on Republican lawmakers who were practicing for a bipartisan charity game.
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday repudiated any and all associations the gunman in the Alexandria baseball field shooting claimed to have had with his 2016 presidential campaign. Social media accounts for James T. Hodgkinson, believed to be the man who opened fire on GOP lawmakers at a baseball practice in suburban Washington, D.C., appeared to show him as an outspoken critic of Republicans and a supporter of Sanders' campaign.
Reports have identified James T. Hodgkinson, as the suspected shooter at the congressional Republicans' baseball practice early Wednesday morning in Virginia that injured five, including Rep. Steve Scalise. It appears he was from Belleville, Illinois and was a Bernie supporter, who didn't like Hillary Clinton either and had posted several anti-Trump passages on his alleged FB page.
After a gunman opened fire on a Congressional baseball practice on Wednesday morning, politicians from both sides of the aisle came together on social media to condemn the violence. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, a true friend and patriot, was badly injured but will fully recover.
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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, two Capitol police officers and at least one other person were shot Wednesday morning when a gunman opened fire on a GOP baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. President Donald Trump spoke several hours after the shooting, saying that the shooter, identified as James T. Hodgkinson, of Illinois, has died after being shot by law enforcement during a gun battle at the baseball field.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-LA, was among multiple people shot at a baseball practice for GOP lawmakers and staff Wednesday in Alexandria, VA. James Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old from Belleville, IL, is the suspected shooter who opened fire at a GOP lawmakers' baseball practice in Alexandria, VA, on Wednesday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has told his fellow lawmakers that "an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us." Ryan addressed the House in the wake of Wednesday's shooting at a practice of lawmakers for the annual charity congressional baseball game.
"Authorities are continuing to investigate the crime and the assailant has now died from his injuries," Trump said from the White House. Scalise, a congressional staffer and two law enforcement officials suffered gunshot wounds after the shooter opened fire on Republican members of Congress on the baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia.