A 49-year-old man entered the Democrat’s office in Fairfax on Monday morning with a metal baseball bat and attacked two members of his staff, police say.
A mentally ill man chased and threatened a woman with a metal baseball bat in a northern Virginia neighborhood before attacking U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office, shattering windows and striking two women, including an intern on her first day on the job, authorities said.
Chilling video footage shows a screaming woman fleeing a baseball-bat-wielding Xuan-Kha Tran Pham moments before he allegedly stormed Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office and attacked two staffers and a cop.
director and beat her on the head with a bat. overnight both staffers release from the hospital. farm, who appears to refused to appear for his video arraignment, prosecutors called a mental health crisis and dismissed those charges last year after he considered six month of treatment unless may authorities say pham found a handwritten federal lawsuit alleging the agency was wrongfully imprisoning and brutally torturing him. this latest incident comes as threats and attacks on lawmakers are skyrocketing, according to capitol police, up 400% over the last six years. david, but congressman says this incident underscores the challenges to protect lawmakers on the vulnerability of the district offices. xuan kha tran pham is being held with no bail, his arraignment continued until july. david: janine norman in fairfax, virginia, tonight. thank you. we turn now to the high-stakes meeting at the white house. the president, speaker of the house u.s. just weeks from default. the news toni