A Democratic member of the House of Representatives said that someone attacked members of his staff with a baseball bat at a district office in northern Virginia.
FAIRFAX, Va. — A man with a metal baseball bat walked into the northern Virginia office of U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly on Monday, asked for him, and struck two of his workers with the bat, including an intern in her first day on the job, police and the congressman said.
The congressman, who wasn’t in the office at the time, said he knew of no motive for the attack, calling it “unconscionable and devastating” in a post on Twitter. Connolly said the two people attacked were an intern, who was struck in the side, and his outreach director, who was hit on the head. “You could absolutely tell that the people inside were scared. They were hiding. Someone swinging a bat around, I would be scared as well,” Gardner said.
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