News reports are stating the Alexandria, Virginia gunman was from Illinois. In the report on the Munich, Germany gunman, it's quoted he was living in
Colorado (USA) with his Father and was on a European trip.
A 66-year-old Illinois man has been identified as the suspect in the shooting of a congressional baseball practice Wednesday, injuring at least one member of the House of Representatives.
James T. Hodgkinson: Illinois Man Identified as Suspected Gunman in Virginia Shooting (Video)
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James T. Hodgkinson allegedly opened fire at a field in Alexandria, Virginia, several law enforcement sources told NBC News. More than a dozen GOP lawmakers were there with staff.
The shooter then got into a gunfight with police, and was shot, officials said. The attacker later died, President Donald Trump said. The president paid tribute to the Capitol Police officers who likely saved lives in the face of a "brutal assault."
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement he’d been told the shooter had "apparently volunteered" on his 2016 presidential campaign.
“I am sickened by this despicable act,” Sanders said. “Let me be as clear as I can be. Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms.”
The law enforcement officials said the shooter was heard asking, "Are these the Republicans or the Democrats?" That has raised questions about the gunman's political motivations. But officials at the scene said that piece of the investigation remains unclear.
Hodgkinson, a licensed home inspector who ran his business out of his Illinois home, has a history of arrests and was charged in 2006 with assaulting a woman, according to public records. At the time, police recovered a pocket knife, hair they say was pulled out of the woman's head, and a 12-gauge shotgun at the scene of the alleged attack. The charges, domestic battery, aggravated discharge of a firearm, and battery, were later dismissed, according to public records.
Police also responded to reports of gunshots at his Belleville home — about 20 miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri — in late March, according to a police report. Callers to 911 reported hearing 50 shots. Police said they found Hodgkinson with a weapon in his possession and a valid Illinois firearms license. They told Hodgkinson not to fire his weapon in that area as there were homes nearby.
Hodgkinson, encountered on the property of his rural home with a high-powered rifle, told officers he was taking target practice. “He was very cordial, very nice, very understanding,” St. Clair County Sheriff Richard Watson said Wednesday after speaking to one of the responding officers. “He had no reason to think he was doing anything illegal, immoral or anything.”
Lyndon Evanko, who represented Hodgkinson in the 2006 case, described his former client as “an odd little guy” and “a bit of a misanthrope.”
Evanko went on: “He wasn’t unpleasant. But he wasn’t particularly somebody you would want to hang out with. I got the feeling that he butted heads with a lot of people."
At the same time, Evanko said, Hodgkinson “didn’t seem the least bit political" or “somebody with a great deal of passion about anything."
Hodgkinson was a frequent writer to his local paper, the Belleville News-Democrat, where he railed against income inequality, linking it to the tax policies of the GOP, the newspaper reported.
“I have never said ‘life sucks,’ only the policies of the Republicans,’ he wrote in one letter.
In another, Hodgkinson said his favorite TV program was “The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC.
Other law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation told NBC News that at this point there's no indication that the shooter had ties to international terrorism.
Witnesses said the gunman opened fire with a rifle from the third base side of the diamond.
One witness, David Thomas, said he had just left a YMCA gym when the shooting started. He said he saw the gunman pacing from one end of the third base dugout to the other, firing multiple rounds then stopping to shout things like “get out of here.”
He briefly took cover with Laura Russell, then ran home, where she saw pictures of the gunman and recognized him as someone she often saw in the early morning at the YMCA working on a laptop. Russell said she never saw him working out, which she found odd. But “he was friendly,” she said.
Two firearms, a rifle and a handgun, were recovered from the scene, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.
A 37-year-old man alleged to have shot a police officer in a Munich subway station after randomly attacking another passenger had been living with his father in Colorado and was on a European trip, German officials said Wednesday.
German police: Munich shooting suspect lived in Colorado
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Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters the suspect, identified only as a Bavarian-born German citizen, flew to Munich airport from Athens on Monday and spent the night in the airport. Witnesses told police as the man rode the subway toward the city Tuesday he was talking to himself in English, then suddenly began punching another, apparently randomly chosen, passenger in the face, pummeling him until he was bloody.
Police were called and when the suspect got off at the suburban Unterfoehring station, two officers began questioning him. Surveillance video shows one officer holding a pad of paper and pen taking notes when the suspect suddenly shoved him with "extreme violence" toward an oncoming train, Andrae said.
In the ensuing struggle the suspect grabbed the officer's pistol from its holster, and opened fire at both of the officers. He missed the officer whose weapon he took, but hit his colleague in her head as he emptied the eight-shot magazine. Two bystanders were also injured, and are believed to have been hit by shots fired by the suspect.
The officer hit in the head appears to have fired at least one shot, hitting the suspect in the buttocks. Despite the wound, he was able to flee and was apprehended outside by other officers arriving on the scene.
The injured officer was rushed to a nearby hospital and was still in life-threatening condition on Wednesday, Andrae said. The bystanders were also treated and are stable. Andrae said police had been in contact with the suspect's father with whom he had been living in the U.S., and said the suspect apparently had a criminal record there.
He did not give further details but a police source confirmed German media reports that the suspect's name is Alexander B. and that he had been living in Colorado. Bild newspaper reported he was staying in Fort Collins, but the source could not confirm that.
In addition to some 200 witnesses to interview, Andrae said police also have video surveillance footage from multiple locations to review and are still working on a complete picture of how the attack unfolded. The suspect has so far refused to talk with police.
