Right and bullet

The Republican of Louisiana Steve Scalis was wounded as a result of shooting in Virginia, CNN reports . In total, five people suffered.

Several congressmen participated in training for a charity baseball match in the city of Alexandria, located 11 km from Washington. At this time, an unknown person opened fire on them.

Scalis received a non -hazardous wound. The doctor who was among the participants in the training put him a tourniquet. The assistant to the congressman and two police officers who reacted to shooting also were injured. All the wounded were taken to the hospital.

The congressman-republican Morris Brooks, who was during the incident on the neighboring baseball court, said that the attacker fired more than 50 shots from the semi-automatic rifle. According to the congressman, who shot is a middle -aged white man, of short stature.

The police detained the attacker. He was also injured and hospitalized.

The motives of the shooter have not yet been reported. An eyewitness told reporters that three minutes before the opening of the shooting, a stranger came up to him and asked him who was training at the site, Republicans or Democrats.

Scalis is the coordinator of the republican faction in the House of Representatives.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are following the situation. “We are deeply upset by this tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with members of the Congress, with their employees, with the Capitol police, with those who were the first to react to what happened, with all the others,” Trump said in a statement .