06-14-2017, 08:20 AM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...81c_story.html
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BREAKING: Multiple law enforcement sources identified the suspected gunman as James T. Hodgkinson III, 66, from Illinois.
A gunman opened fire Wednesday morning on a baseball practice at a park in Alexandria involving Republican members of Congress, injuring several people including at least one lawmaker, Steve Scalise, the majority whip, according to police and a congressman.
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So this gunman traveled from Illinois ...
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Katie Fillus of Alexandria had just gotten out of her car to walk her dogs in the park nearby when she said she heard ?very, very loud popping sounds.?
?And I knew a baseball team was practicing, and everybody started screaming, ?Hit the ground! Hit the ground!? ?
She said she lay flat in the field as the gunshots grew louder ? ?like he was walking across the field toward all of us, the gunman, and I was screaming: ?Can someone help me? I have my dogs and I can?t get behind anything.? ?
Fillus said a police agent pulled out a gun and tried to shoot back. She was screaming, ? ?Drop your weapon!? And he [the gunman]shot her[the 'agent'] and she fell on the ground.
?She fell on the ground in front of us, and we were all just trying to lay as flat we could. And I belly crawled, dragging through the mud. I got to the car and I ducked under the car and I laid as close as I could under the car to hide from the person. Then the police seemed to come.?
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The assailant shot an armed police 'agent' -- I had to read this 3x the woman was still hysterical perhaps.
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