14-50 Shots Fired
Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), the third-most powerful Republican in the House, was shot Wednesday morning, along with an aide, at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia. Two police officers also shot.
Initial reports state 14-50 shots were fired. Scalise is in stable condition. Reports say he was shot in the hip.
Scalise, 51, was practicing for a bipartisan congressional baseball game scheduled for Thursday.
CBS reports a suspect is in custody:
UPDATE I: 8:21 AM EDT –
Sen. Rand Paul tells MSNBC that if the Capitol Hill police had not been there it would have been a “massacre.”
UPDATE II: 8:30 AM EDT –
UPDATE III: 8:33 AM EDT –
Fox News is at least one lawmaker says minutes before the shooting a man walked up and asked if the players were Democrats or Republicans:
UPDATE III 9:20 AM EDT –
Former Representative Gabby Giffords was shot in the head in an assassination attempt in 2011:
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