May 15, 2023 02:02 PM UTC

Man Attacks Congressional Staffers with Baseball Bat

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: The alleged assailant has what you could charitably call a “colorful” history. From The Daily Beast:

U.S. Capitol Police later identified the suspect as a 49-year old local named Xuan Kha Tran Pham, and said he was wielding a metal bat. He is facing charges of aggravated malicious wounding and malicious wounding.

“At this time, it is not clear what the suspect’s motivation may have been. Based on what we know right now, investigators do not have any information that the suspect was known to the USCP,” the agency said.

Pham filed a wacky lawsuit last year against the Central Intelligence Agency that claimed he had been wrongfully imprisoned in a “lower perspective”—part of a scheme to torture him from the “fourth dimension,” according to NBC News.

He represented himself in the $29 million case, which the CIA has moved to have dismissed.

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The Washington Post reports on some disturbing news from Virginia:

A man with a baseball bat went to Rep. Gerald E. Connolly’s Fairfax City office Monday and assaulted two staff members, according to police and the congressman.

“This morning, an individual entered my District Office armed with a baseball bat and asked for me before committing an act of violence against two members of my staff,” Connolly (D-Va.) said in a statement.

Lisa Gardner, a spokeswoman for the Fairfax City Police Department, said in an interview with Channel 4 that the call for the incident came in just before 10:50 a.m. Monday.

Gardner said police received a report that a man with a baseball bat was “actively assaulting” staffers inside the office. When officers responded, Gardner said they found two people who had been struck in the upper body with the baseball bat.

The staffers were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and the assailant was taken into custody on the scene, Gardner said.

So far there is no news on the identity or motive of the assailant. We’ll update as more information becomes available.