Rep. Mike Bishop, R-Mich., survived the shooting on the GOP practice baseball game Wednesday morning. He recounted the horrific moment during an interview on CBS’ WWJ Newsradio 950.
“As we were standing here this morning, a gunman walked up to the fence line and just began to shoot. I was standing at home plate and he was in the third base line,” Bishop told the Detroit radio station. “He had a rifle that was clearly meant for the job of taking people out, multiple casualties, and he had several rounds and magazines that he kept unloading and reloading.”
Bishop said the only reason he and his colleagues survived was because someone at the practice field had a gun and was able to return fire while they found cover behind the backstop and elsewhere.
“We were inside the backstop and if we didn’t have that cover by a brave person who stood up and took a shot themselves, we would not have gotten out of there and every one of us would have been hit — every single one of us,” he told WWJ Newsradio 950.
He said that two of their staff — identified elsewhere as Capitol Hill police officers — and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise had been injured in the incident. He said that they tried to get Scalise off the baseball diamond as quickly as possible but that the gunman was “relentless.”
“One of our staffers got hit in the chest and I pray for him, I just don’t know what the outcome is going to be,” Bishop said. “This is a tragic situation and frankly, it’s changed everything as I know it forever.”
“As we were standing here this morning, a gunman walked up to the fence line and just began to shoot. I was standing at home plate and he was in the third base line,” Bishop told the Detroit radio station. “He had a rifle that was clearly meant for the job of taking people out, multiple casualties, and he had several rounds and magazines that he kept unloading and reloading.”
Bishop said the only reason he and his colleagues survived was because someone at the practice field had a gun and was able to return fire while they found cover behind the backstop and elsewhere.
“We were inside the backstop and if we didn’t have that cover by a brave person who stood up and took a shot themselves, we would not have gotten out of there and every one of us would have been hit — every single one of us,” he told WWJ Newsradio 950.
He said that two of their staff — identified elsewhere as Capitol Hill police officers — and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise had been injured in the incident. He said that they tried to get Scalise off the baseball diamond as quickly as possible but that the gunman was “relentless.”
“One of our staffers got hit in the chest and I pray for him, I just don’t know what the outcome is going to be,” Bishop said. “This is a tragic situation and frankly, it’s changed everything as I know it forever.”
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