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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...-va/102838868/

Police in Alexandria, Virginia, say they are investigating a shooting involving multiple people in northern Virginia.

U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, said he was on the baseball field Wednesday.

“As we were standing on the field, there was a loud burst of gunfire from about 40 yards away from us,” he told The Detroit News. “I saw people going down.”

Media reports Wednesday said the unidentified gunman shot and wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-LA.

Bishop confirmed it.

He also said he feared for his life and the lives of everyone else on the field.

“He would have taken down every single one of us because he had several magazines of ammunition ready to reload,” he said. “The only reason we were able to find cover is because we were inside the backstop, the only reason we were able to get out because there were guys here with weapons who fired back.”

A spokesman for Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, said he was at baseball practice with the Democratic team on a field in Washington, D.C., separate from where the shooting took place. Kildee is fine.