. the man who opened fire on congressional republicans today, the baseball team shooting majority whip steve scalise and leaving him in critical condition now. we can tell you he was in washington, d.c. area for months. not from there but he had been there camping out in a camper. the fbi revealing he was living out of a van in alexandra, virginia, since march. more details emerging, including the shooter s facebook page, anti-trump and anti-gop. then this. a pattern of run-ins with the logs. phil mattingly is out front. reporter: tonight investigators are digging into the past of this 66-year-old man, james hodgkin sson. a politically active individual
unacceptable in our societies and i condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. hodgkin sson started his own home inspection company in 1994, only to quit the job on new year s eve last year. he was fired in three as an independent contractor from a st. clair intergovernmental department for unacceptable behavior. while kern wouldn t elaborate on that behavior itself he noted that rog kinsson returned in 2012 to ask for reinstatement. a search reveals seven run-ins with the law. a police report described him as allegedly punching a friend of his daughters in the face, firing off a gun, then dragging his daughter from a house by her hair, prying her out of a car by cutting her seat belt with a pocket knife.