Five people were injured, including MI native Matt Mika and U.S. Rep Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, who remain in critical condition. Scalise will undergo more operations. The FBI continues to process evidence in an effort to assess the potential motivations of the shooter, the agency said in a statement Friday.
"I feel a lot more confident and a lot more optimistic than I did two, three days ago", said Dr. Jack Sava at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Scalise was sedated Friday, but the husband and father of two has been able to respond to his doctors and family.
The single round traveled across Scalise's pelvis, "fracturing bones, injuring internal organs, and causing severe bleeding" stated the hospital Wednesday night. He has received multiple units of blood transfusion.
Police special agent David Bailey, injured in the shooting Wednesday in an Alexandria, Va., park, threw out the ceremonial first ball after it was presented to him by Joe Torre, former manager of the New York Yankees.
"Baseball is the American game, to be able to play it, and that's why we have to play this game tonight", said Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, who injured his ankle in the chaos Wednesday and will watch from the third-base coaching box.
The president said that because of the "tremendous pain and suffering he's now enduring. our country will perhaps become closer, more unified".
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The president's meaning was unclear as he made the comments at an event on Cuba policy in Miami. The shooter was an IL man, James Hodgkinson, who had lashed out against President Donald Trump and Republicans over social media.
For the game, which began in 1909, members of the Senate and House of Representatives donned uniforms representing teams from their constituencies for the game and many topped them with hats from Louisiana State University, Mr Scalise's alma mater, as a tribute. Hodgkinson died after being shot by police. According to Hodgkinson's social-media history and other reports, he expressed broad dissent against Trump and Republican policies.
Four others were wounded when gunman James Hodgkinson opened fire on the practice; Hodgkinson, 66, was killed by Capitol Police officers.
As congressional Republicans and Democrats joined Thursday night in their annual baseball game, played this year in Scalise's honor, word came from the hospital that he remained in critical condition, but had "improved in the last 24 hours".
"My first reaction was who would ever want to shoot Steve Scalise", Neal said.
U.S. politicians are playing in a charity baseball game a day after a shooting - as they practised - wounded a top Republican and three others.
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