"He was out of money", Mrs. Hodgkinson said. It appears that Scalise, his Republican colleagues and others, who were practicing for a charity baseball game, were targeted by a man - who died from his own wounds - who disagreed with Republicans' positions.
Thursday afternoon Hodgkinson's wife of thirty years said her husband sold nearly everything and left for Washington to work with people to help change the tax brackets. She said Hodgkinson was home all day, and she suspected he left because "he just wanted a break from it".
DeSantis said as he walked to his auto, a man asked him if it was Republicans or Democrats practising.
"He never bothered anybody that I knew of", Guetterman said, shaking his head in disbelief that someone living that close to him could do something like that.
The wife of the Alexandria, Virginia, gunman says she's shocked about the attack and had no idea what her husband was planning. He let his business license expire and moved to the Washington, DC area in March, where he reportedly lived out of his white cargo van and frequented the YMCA in Alexandria located next to the baseball field.
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Sue Hodgkinson expressed her profound regret: "I'm sorry that he did this". Authorities said James Hodgkinson expressed grievances online about the president and Republicans, but they're still working to determine a concrete motive for the shooting.
"I just want you to all go away and leave my neighbors in peace".
"I would like to see the president stay off of Twitter", Republican Senator John Thune told MSNBC, adding that lawmakers had to do their part to tone down comments and work with the opposing party.
So far, investigators have not linked Hodgkinson to any radical groups, said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.
Officials also found cell-phone pictures of the baseball field where Hodgkinson fired shots, The New York Times reported. High-ranking Congressman Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, was seriously injured and remains hospitalized.
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