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rounds before he was taken down by capitol police. the security detail for congressman scalise. we are on the scene right now. reporter: as you can see behind me there is still a very heavy police presence here. we have seen some of the fire vehicles leave and others but if you look down behind me here and see where these police cars, to the left is the park and you have seen some of the video closer up. as you can tell police have moved us several blocks away. the incident under control according to police. five people taken to the hospital that include the shooter. as you mentioned, congressman steve scalise and a staffer or lobbyist and potentially one or two of the security detail that were with the congressmen and returned fire. i was able to talk just a few minutes ago to owen britain who was in the ymca right next to the park. he was walking out about 7:05 and somebody said shots are being fired. he went outside and looked outside and actually saw the man. here s par
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the alexandria chief. thank you, chief. we re not going folks, we re not going to answer any questions at this point because as the chief pointed out, this is an active, ongoing investigation. we call it crime scene hot because we re collecting information and evidence. it would be premature for us to respond any further. in an hour and a half, we will come back together and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps answer some questions at that time. we re done right now. this is a stable situation at this point. there s no additional threat. we consider this incident to be a closed incident under investigation. thank you very much. we ll be back in an hour and a half. thank you. you ve been listening to both the chief of the alexandria police department as well as the capitol police chief of capitol police. here s what we have so far. they got reports that nine minutes after 7:00 this morning of an active shooter at simpson park on monroe in alexandria, v