He was 20 yards from the shooter, playing shortstop-closer to the shooter than Congressman Scalise, who was shot. Rand Paul's (R-KY) assessment that without those fearless officers, it would have been a massacre.
And there must have been 50 to 100 shots fired, hard to itemize 'em.
Rep. Brooks said that once the gunman was neutralized, the congressmen and security detail ran to the aid of Scalise, putting "pressure on his wound on his hip", with the help of Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, a podiatrist who served as a combat surgeon in Iraq. "And I look around and behind third base, in the third base dugout ..."
The baseball team was practicing for the annual charity Congressional Baseball Game, which Palmer said was planned to honor victims of the recent terror attacks in London. This morning his detail consisted of the two Capitol Hill Policemen who were shot in the process of neutralizing the attacker. "I cannot imagine him going there for any other reason than to try and kill as many congressmen as he could". Scalise was coherent the whole time, Flake said.
"I see a rifle, then I see a little bit of a body and then I hear another "blam" and then I realized there's an active shooter", said Brooks, speaking on CNN's "New Day" minutes after police had secured the scene. One of them was wounded in the leg.
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A reporter asked Brooks if the shooting changed his views "on the gun situation in America?"
"As with any constitutional provision in the bill of rights, there are adverse aspects to each of those rights that we enjoy as people", he said. "What we saw here was one of the bad side effects of someone not exercising those rights properly".
Brooks, who represents Alabama's 5th district, said he heard a "loud bam" as he prepared to take batting practice along the third base line of the baseball field at a high school in Alexandria, Virginia. "The gun was a semiautomatic", Brooks told CNN.
The game is expected to raise an estimated $550,000 to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington, the Washington Literacy Center, and the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation.
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