The gunman who shot a top GOP congressman and several other people Wednesday at a baseball practice outside the nation's capital had a long history of lashing out at Republicans and recently frightened a neighbor by firing a rifle into a field behind his IL home.
The Telegraph reported that Hodgkinson is from Belleville, Illinois, and owns a home inspection business. But Davis said, "I don't think it's a coincidence that no bullets were fired outside the baseball field." . "That, and he sat in the Y's lobby for hours and hours".
The shooting occurred at a popular park and baseball complex in Alexandria, Virginia, where Republican lawmakers and others were gathered for a morning practice about 7 a.m. Scalise, 51, the No. 3 House Republican leader first elected to the House in 2008, was in stable condition and undergoing surgery. James Hodgkinson succeeded in wounding Republican House whip Rep. Steve Scalise, a congressional staffer and members of the congressional police force before being taken out by return gunfire himself.
Sanders tweeted, "Just been informed that alleged shooter at Republican baseball practice apparently volunteered on my Presidential campaign". "Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society, and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms", the senator said.
In the past year, most of his Facebook posts consisted of signed petitions on Change.org with titles like: "Bernie - please run no matter what;" "Hillary Rodham Clinton should concede the nomination to Bernie Sanders;" and "Healthcare for all Americans". He later died of his injuries, President Donald Trump told the nation from the White House.
"Trump is a Traitor", Hodgkinson wrote on his Facebook page earlier this spring. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. "It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co.", one of the pages posted in March. In 2012, Hodgkinson said the country needed tax reform.
Hodgkinson called or emailed his congressman, Republican Mike Bost, fourteen times, The Washington Post reports.
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Police arrested Hodgkinson and his wife and charged them with domestic battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm, according to a narrative obtained by The Post. The county clerk's online database shows the charges were later dismissed.
The Alexandria, Va., Police Department said on Twitter a suspect is in custody and does not pose a threat. The daughter refused and locked herself in a bedroom before Hodgkinson again forced his way in and "became violent", grabbing her by her hair and throwing her on the floor, according to the report.
Police officials would not comment on any motive for the shooting or whether Hodgkinson was targeting Republicans.
His daughter escaped and got into the neighbor's vehicle, but Hodgkinson opened the door of the auto, pulled out a pocket knife and cut off the seatbelt she was wearing, records show.
More recently, he was warned by to stop shooting guns at trees in the woods near his home, according to the Belleville News-Democrat.
St. Clair County Sheriff's Office in IL has been contacted for information about Hodgkinson by authorities investigating the shooting in Alexandria, an official with the sheriff's office told ABC News.
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