{"id":1931610,"date":"2023-05-16T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-identifies-suspect-in-baseball-bat-attack-on-house-dems-staff\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T05:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T09:59:39","slug":"capitol-police-identifies-suspect-in-baseball-bat-attack-on-house-dems-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-identifies-suspect-in-baseball-bat-attack-on-house-dems-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Police find suspect in attack on House Dem&#8217;s staff with baseball bat."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcapitol-police-identifies-suspect-in-baseball-bat-attack-on-house-dems-staff%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Man Arrested for Alleged Baseball Bat Attack on Congressional Staffers<\/h2>\n<h3>The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) have identified the suspect in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-identifies-suspect-in-baseball-bat-attack-on-house-dems-staff\/\" title=\"Capitol Police find suspect in attack on House Dem's staff with baseball bat.\">alleged baseball bat attack<\/a> on staffers for Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) at his district office in Fairfax, Virginia, on Monday.<\/h3>\n<p>Xuan Kha Tran Pham, a 49-year-old man from Fairfax, Virginia, has been arrested and charged in connection to the incident, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-chief-resists-biden-i-cannot-comply-with-demand-to-use-non-legal-immigration-terms\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Chief Resists Biden: \u2018I Cannot\u2019 Comply With Demand To Use Non-Legal Immigration Terms\">federal law enforcement agency<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt approximately 10:49 a.m. on Monday, May 15, a man entered Representative Connolly\u2019s District Office. Two Congressional staffers were assaulted with a metal bat and received non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-mocked-trump-for-hiding-in-his-bunker-after-antifa-and-black-lives-matter-insurrectionists-tried-to-storm-the-white-house-last-year-injuring-dozens-of-cops\/\" title=\"Biden Mocked Trump for \u2018Hiding in His Bunker\u2019 After Antifa and Black Lives Matter Insurrectionists Tried to Storm the White House Last Year, Injuring Dozens of Cops\">-life threatening injuries<\/a>. Congressman Connolly was not in the office at the time of the assaults,\u201d the Capitol Police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect faces one count of Aggravated Malicious Wounding and one count of Malicious Wounding, the USCP said. An investigation by the USCP and the Fairfax City Police Department is ongoing.<\/p>\n<h3>Connolly&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Connolly announced earlier in the day that his two staffers had been transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The congressman said a man wielding a baseball bat attacked the staffers after asking for the congressman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, our focus is on ensuring they are receiving the care they need. We are incredibly thankful to the City of Fairfax Police Department and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/island-mystery-3-americans-dead-at-sandals-resort-in-bahamas\/\" title=\"Island Mystery: 3 Americans Dead At Sandals Resort in Bahamas\">emergency medical professionals<\/a> for their quick response,\u201d Connolly said in his statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the best team in Congress. My District Office staff make themselves available to constituents and members of the public every day,\u201d the congressman said. \u201cThe thought that someone would take advantage of my staff\u2019s accessibility to commit an act of violence is unconscionable and devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Increase in Threats Against Members of Congress<\/h3>\n<p>As noted by the USCP in its press release, last month Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger testified about the challenge of contending with a roughly 400% increase in threats against members of Congress over the past six years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the course of the last year, the world has continuously changed, becoming more violent and uncertain,\u201d Manger added.<\/p>\n<h3>What We Know So Far<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The suspect, Xuan Kha Tran Pham, has been arrested and charged in connection to the alleged baseball bat attack on staffers for Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) at his district office in Fairfax, Virginia.<\/li>\n<li>Two Congressional staffers were assaulted with a metal bat and received non-life threatening injuries.<\/li>\n<li>Connolly&#8217;s two staffers have been transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/li>\n<li>The suspect faces one count of Aggravated Malicious Wounding and one count of Malicious Wounding.<\/li>\n<li>An investigation by the USCP and the Fairfax City Police Department is ongoing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Capitol Police named Xuan Kha Tran Pham, a 49-year-old man from Fairfax, Virginia, as the suspect in the alleged baseball bat attack on Rep. Gerry Connolly&#8217;s staffers. Pham has been arrested and charged in connection to the incident at Connolly&#8217;s district office in Fairfax, Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1931611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4002,15360,14658,4172,3933,3653,3967,8037,4230],"class_list":["post-1931610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-attack","tag-baseball","tag-bat","tag-capitol","tag-dems","tag-house","tag-police","tag-staff","tag-suspect"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}