ALEXANDRIA, United States (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is calling on the public to help provide more information on James Hodgkinson, the 66-year-old man suspected opening fire on Wednesday (June 14) during a practice for a charity Congressional baseball game morning. Congressman Steve Scalise was among those shot.
FBI Special Agent in Charge for the Washington Field Office, Timothy Slater, didn’t get into specifics other than to clarify some confusion in the media about who was shot. Five individuals were shot Wednesday morning during the baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, among them the suspected shooter himself, who succumbed to his injuries, Slater said. Two others were injured during the ordeal.
Hodgkinson raged against Republican United States President Donald Trump on social media and idolized Bernie Sanders, whom he saw as the only politician who understood the working class, officials said.
The suspected shooter was from Belleville, Illinois. Slater said he had been living out of his Vehicle in Alexandria.