Details from the violent attack on staffers at the district office of U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) are emerging.
Congressman Connolly, who has served in the House of Representatives since 2009, says a man entered his office Monday morning asking for the Virginia Democratic lawmaker.
CNN’s Manu Raju reports Rep. Connolly was at “a ribbon cutting [ceremony] at the time for a food bank when the assailant drove to his district office and entered the building.”
The alleged assailant was carrying a metal baseball bat, Connolly told Raju, and exhibited “out of control rage,” whacking one of the aides in the head.
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“Rep. Gerry Connolly told me the assailant — who attacked two of his aides today — did so with a metal bat. The attacker struck one senior aide in the head with the metal bat, he said. The attacker also hit an intern — on her first day on the job — on the side with the bat.”
“The attacker, who is a constituent from his district but who Connolly says he doesn’t know, caused wide damage in his office, shattering glass in a conference room and breaking computers along the way.”
“He was filled with out of control rage,” Connolly told Raju.
This is a breaking news and developing story.