deeply hodgkinson traveled from his home in bellevue, illinois. the fbi released this poster asking the public for help. >> to the local alexandria community. we believe the shooter has been living out of his vehicle on eastman monroe street, therefore asking you to report any interactions you may have had with him. reporter: the fbi is looking into this notice and acquaintances and whereabouts leading up to the shooting. also look at the rifle and handgun, if it belongs in and how he acquired it. they are searching his home in illinois to try and learn more about him. lori: thanks. almost 24 hours now and it still so shocking. lauren: a show of unity and support. the baseball games are baseball games are practicing for raises hundreds of thousands of dollars to charity will go on tonight. paul republican team is very the lsu tigers jersey in support of representative scalise in louisiana -- from louisiana. lori: that speaks volumes. can the country hold onto this message in the wake of so much political violence and turmoil? republican strategist

two days later, march 24th, neighbored near his home in bellevue, illinois, called to complain about a subject in the pine trees shooting. according to the sheriff's office it was hodgkinson and deputies told him not to discharge his weapon in the area. he did have a valid firearms weapon and was told not to discharge. he called the republican theeving and cheating. mary ellen o'toole is a former fbi profiler. >> one is a justice collector. this is someone who goes through life and looks for grievances that are occurring to them and they blame other people for it. >> reporter: in 2006 hodgkinson was arrested for punching a woman in the face and threatening a man in the home with a shotgun. hitting him with a shot as the man ran away. investigators are now tracing the assault rifle and handgun in going through an old white conversion van they think he may have been living in. they believe he's been in the le alexandria area since march. senator sanders said he was sickened by the attack. >> violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and i condemn this action in the strongest

tim: hodgkinson open fire in alexandria two months after he moved from this rural property in bellevue, illinois. hodgkinson's facebook page is filled with angry political posts against president trump and the republicans. democratic senator bernie sanders said the shooter volunteered at his presidential campaign. >> i condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. tim: hodgkinson was arrested for domestic battery in 2006, but the case was dismissed. in march, deputies responded to his property for gunshots, where he was legally using a hunting rifle for practice. but three months later and hundreds of miles away, the 66-year-old opened fire on a group of congressional republicans until two capitol hill police officer shot back and killed him. this area is still blocked all. as soon as we figure out what you know. in southern illinois, tim barber, abc 7 news. jonathan: tim, thanks. one thing we know about james the areas, one of that he frequented, a bar, a barbecue bar called porkbarrel. they remember him. >> when his picture was released , it was like a punch to the gut. guy,initely serv

. >> reporter: police and the fbi search the the home of james hodgkinson of bellevue, illinois. the gunman's brother told new york times he was upset over the election of president trump. tonight republicans and democrats say the charity baseball game will go on tomorrow. >>> a report of a gunman at travis acer base this afternoon. it turns out to be a special alarm. the first day of the multi-day security training exercise when someone reported hearing a gunshot neither basic exchange around 3:30. officers responded telling people to close their doors and windows. they reported gunfire was an error. >>> embattled contra costa district attorney mark peterson resigned today after pleading no contest to a felony perjury charge. in exchange for a plea 12 other counts including misuse of campaign funds were dropped. >> no one is above the law. mark peterson thinks he's above the law. >> peterson was sentenced to 250 hours of community service and three years probation. last december he was fined by the fair political practices commission for spending more than $66,000 of campaign fu

. >> also today, james hodgkinson was a member of their trade association, and he lived in bellevue illinois. but there is no other information as a member, . >> melissa: thank you for reporting. officers who put themselves in harm's way. what was the president's reaction, john? >> the president was in the room at about 11:30 this morning. his reaction was very heartfelt and concerned about the welfare of the people that were involved in what's happening in this country. the president also expressing his concern for the victims of this and terrific praise for the members of the capitol hill police and security detail for intervening. had they not been there, this could have been a absolute massacre and no one left alive. so the president was very complimentary and had high praise for the capitol hill police. he also reached out to the wife of scalise. >> that americans are praying for you. i pledged to her powerful and absolute support. anything she needs. we are with her and with the entire scalise family. i've also spoke with chief matthew, he's doing a fantastic job of the capital police

he is from bellevue, illinois. his liceninspector license expi last fall, and he had a driver's license. police searched his house and his car. they wanted to node what led him to do this. people who had talked to him repeatedly knew he had been in this area for almost two months. he had an encounter in the sheriff's office in illinois in late march when neighbors complained he was shooting in the woods. they said he had to go somewhere else, and he was polite and not belligerent and said okay. then he came to the d.c. area. to the neighborhood where the shooting happened, and he was a frequent user of a ymca that's just across the street from that ballpark, according to people who have been there this morning. the ballpark and the ymca have an adjacent parking lot, so he could see the ballpark every day out the window of the ymca, and had some idea there was a baseball game going on there with some sort of politicians, and witnesses say he asked, who are these players? are they republicans or democrats? and then a

about some of his background what he had been doing in the leadup to this incident, coming from bellevue, illinois, and setting up shop in alexandria, you know, taking his white van out there and staking out some ground at a gym next door for a couple of months. we have to let the fbi obviously conduct its investigation and we don't need to necessarily chip in with speculation from the sidelines here. but there are indications of patterns of clearly abnormal behavior. and to try to draw big brought strokes from this about the national climate, i mean, of course some of these points about needing to tone down the vitriol and have a more measured public discourse, with or without heinous incidents like this is always a healthy thing to say. when you get into the game of attribution you have to be very careful about going down a slippery slope here and really kind of take stock and perspective in what this all actually means. >> you cover d.c. every day. is it fair to blame one side for the political rhetoric that we're in the midst of? >> oh, i don't think at all. i think that's absolutely unfair. t

the gunman identified at 66-year-old james hodgkinson of bellevue, illinois. >> investigators say it is too early to establish a motive for the shooting. sources say the suspect fired dozens of shots from an assault rifle. police officers at the scene returned fire. two capitol hill police officers hit before the suspect was wounded and taken into custody. terry mcauliffe said those officers, quote, saved a lot of lives today. >> a lot of people feel that today. we now know two other people were wounded. mike, a lobbyist for tiesons shows according to ways and means chairman kevin brady, the other is zachery barth, works for republican from texas. he is expected to make a full recovery. one of the first things he did was call his mother to say he's okay. we're waiting for a statement from president trump at 11:30. >> a lot of us went in the dugout. some of the injured were in there, too. one of the staffers had been shot in the leg. as soon as the gunfire stopped, steve scalise was on the field, laying on the field, been shot in the hip. applied pressure, tried to stop bleeding. he's

hodge kin son of bellevue, illinois. >> washington post is reporting law enforcement officials according to the washington post say the suspect is james t.hotchkinson. bellville, illinois. 66-year-old. a little older than what the description of the people who were there they had guessed to be in the 40s or 50s. they did say report him to be a white man. james t. hodge kin son. the port is reporting on him he had a home inspection business but that license expired in just november of last year >> they are roaring the 66-year-old man from illinois was indeed the shooter this morning. >>> that's the latest information now to come out that is new information we hadn't known the suspect's dent if the b no pictures right now. we her the photographer say had he had his photo journalism hat on he would have been able to get that picture but we do have the next best thing which is his age, 66 as holly mentioned from illinois. james t. hochkinson. >> as you can see from our live pictures everyone still in place there. it's still very much a secure situation. it's an active investigation that will