Who Is Rep. Steve Scalise? Republican Majority Whip Shot In Virginia
Scalise, a former systems engineer, served for 12 years in the Louisiana Legislature before being elected to the House. He was playing second base when he was shot in the hip on Wednesday.
Updated at 2:42 p.m. ET
A shooting Wednesday morning at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., left the third-highest-ranking member of the House of Representatives lying at the edge of the outfield with a gun wound to his hip. The shooter has died, President Trump announced.
Steve Scalise, the House majority whip, headed into surgery at a hospital in Washington at 10 a.m., according to a . And he remained "in.
