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Full coverage, including stories, videos and photos, after Congressman Steve Scalise and others were shot June 14, 2017, at a park in Alexandria, Virginia. The shooter, a man from Illinois, died after being shot by police in an exchange of gunfire. 

A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice on June 14, 2017, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others as congressmen and aides dove for cover.

The assailant, prepared with "a lot of ammo," fought a gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died.

A government official identified him as an Illinois man named James T. Hodgkinson.

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