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<\/p>\nA gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington , wounding several people including House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise before being taken into custody, police and witnesses said.<\/p>\n
In a dramatic blow-by-blow account, Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama told CNN the gunman was armed with a rifle and appeared to be a white male, “a little bit on the chubby side.”<\/p>\n
Brooks said he saw the man only for a second, and that he was shooting from a chain link fence behind the third base position on the field where the congressional group was holding its morning practice.<\/p>\n
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“There must have been 50 to 100 shots fired,” he told CNN. “I hear Steve Scalise over near second base scream. He was shot,” said Brooks, adding he helped apply a tourniquet with his belt to a congressional staffer who was shot in the leg.<\/p>\n
“One of our security detail was shooting back, but it was our pistol versus the shooter’s rifle,” Brooks said. “The only weapon I had was a baseball bat.”<\/p>\n
Fox News anchor Bret Baier tweeted that Scalise was shot in the hip and is expected to survive.<\/p>\n
Scalise’s position as whip in the Republican-controlled House makes him one of the most senior figures in Congress. He is a representative from Louisiana.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump, a Republican, said he and Vice President Mike Pence were aware of the shooting and are monitoring developments closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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