Republicans and Democrats alike were shocked and saddened to learn that House Minority Whip Steve Scalise and several others were shot Wednesday morning while practicing for a charity baseball game.
Authorities say the gunman in Alexandria, Virgina was 66-year-old James Hodgkinson who lived in Belleville, which is a town in southwestern IL off Interstate 64.
Sanders said in a statement that Hodgkinson "apparently" worked as a volunteer for his presidential campaign previous year. In a 2015 Facebook post, Hodgkinson shared a political cartoon about Rep. Scalise and added the comment: "Here's a Republican that should lose his job, but they gave him a raise". Officials said Hodgkinson has been identified as the man who opened fire on Republican lawm.
In the letters, he wrote extensively about income inequality and called repeatedly for higher taxes on the rich.
"(The investigating deputy) said he was very cordial.
"It kind of makes you mad to see how crooked our politicians really are", he said in a letter in October 2010 lamenting what he viewed as the tax system's inequities.
Hodgkinson's criminal history included a 2006 arrest on battery charges that were later dismissed, as well as multiple traffic violations. Brennwald thought it was odd he never saw Hodgkinson exercise or wear workout clothes and considered asking a staffer about him but never did, he said.
Scalise shooter went to Washington to "fix the tax system", wife says
Bost said the social media messages posted by Hodgkinson are unfortunately commonplace right now in the current political climate. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and their associates as traitors and accuses them of "war profiteering".
Hodgkinson, whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified as the gunman, had been living in Alexandria, Virginia, for the past two months, his wife, Suzanne Hodgkinson told ABC News.
During the dispute, Moreland said, she jumped in a auto with her friend, but Hodgkinson opened the vehicle's door and hit her, then used a knife to cut the seat belt off his foster daughter.
Jack McClenahan, a retired Belleville business owner, said he had several unpleasant run-ins with Hodgkinson over the years while Hodgkinson protested a favored Democratic political cause outside the local post office. Shimkus says while we don't yet fully know the motive behind this shameful act of evil, there is no daubt the heroism of the Capitol Police save lives yesterday.
"I feel awful", Suzanne Hodgkinson told a group of reporters.
Sue Hodgkinson talked with reporters briefly in Belleville, Illinois, on Thursday - in part to ask the media to stop disrupting the neighborhood.
"He said, 'I understand, ' and said he needed to take the gun to a range to shoot it, Watson said".
"My prayer is we can resolve our differences in a way that furthers the preamble to the constitution takes us closer to E pluribus Unum", said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Victims have been transported to local hospitals, police said.
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