Steve Scalise shot during baseball practice session, gunman dead

Steve Scalise, No. 3 in House of Representatives Republican leadership, was shot in the hip

A top Republican lawmaker and two police officers were among five people injured when a rifle-wielding man sprayed bullets on them during a practice session for an annual baseball game in a Washington suburb, the latest incident of gun-violence to have rocked the nation.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, 51, was shot in the hip during the practice at a field in Alexandria, Virginia, by the gunman identified as James Hodgkinson, 66, who was shot dead by the police.

"Authorities are continuing to investigate the crime, and the assailant has now died from his injuries. The FBI is leading the