And that told me that they had immediately engaged the shooter.”The gunman died after a shootout with the police. Mr. Scalise, 51, was grievously injured, and said he had undergone “many, many surgeries” and was learning to walk again. The shooting took place at a baseball field in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Va., on June 14. Mr. Scalise said he had arrived at about 6:30 a.m. to practice with other Republican lawmakers for Congress’s annual charity baseball game. Witnesses said Mr. Scalise, of Louisiana, “army-crawled” from the infield to the grass as the shooting continued.

Source: New York Times September 28, 2017 16:29 UTC