injured including children. a suspect now under arrest after leading officers on a brief chase. authorities say he fired on the crowd from a rooftop where they recovered a high powered rifle. witnesses describe chaos, some hid behind and inside dump sisters, under cars, gas stations. the parade left with abandoned strollers, camping chairs, bikes littered the ground an one lone shoe lost in the panic. i saw people shot and killed around me. and a lot of people hiding. and they let us go back to get our car keys and everything. and right where we were, there was a girl dead. another man shot in the ear. someone was on the ground with his leg in the air and the girl crying next to him. and my mom and i saw at least three more people on the ground like bloody. i don t know better man is there for us. what are we learning this morning about the shooting? all right yeah,. reporter: you see this is a parade that people come to from decades, from all the towns surrounding he
Police came. My other son was in the battle cage and he is also very brave. You can see him there in that picture, the tall er of the two. We heard shots and it was clear pretty quickly there was a shooter with a high profile rifle. Steve scalise was hit in the hip he was hit, and he was down the whole time. Senator rand paul was in the batting cage when it started. I could see way in the distance, the gun sounded like an ar15, and we could not see
i kept yelling back are you friendly . We didnt know if it was another gunman or if it was return fire. And the Capital Policeman put his head around the dugout and i could tell it was them returning fire. It was a very chaotic situation, and it lasted for at least ten minutes and it just kept going on and on. Some estimated over 50 shots. I stood up up in the dugout trying to get a sense of where the gunman was. He walked around first base outside of the fence. And he got into the dugout. And we realized we were not safe there. Could you se
and consolation amid this boundless grief. again, the peace and calm of the celebration here just shattered by this shooting. among the questions still left remaining, where did the shooter get this high profile rifle, what exactly is the profile of this rifle, and then there are questions about the shooter s past as well. 22 years old, apparently involved in rap, in music, he had made several music videos and posts over the last several years, including some with some violent themes. and one he posted a stick figure of himself and looking like he was apparently involved in a shooting. and then in another one, you see this stick figure on the ground in a pool of blood surrounded by police officers. so violent imagery in some of his posts from before. that is just part of the
police came. my other son was in the battle cage and he is also very brave. you can see him there in that picture, the tall er of the two. we heard shots and it was clear pretty quickly there was a shooter with a high profile rifle. steve scalise was hit in the hip he was hit, and he was down the whole time. senator rand paul was in the batting cage when it started. i could see way in the distance, the gun sounded like an ar-15, and we could not see