Attacker Of Connolly Staffers Identified - Police
U.S. Capitol Police identified the suspect wielding a metal baseball bat as 49-year-old Xuan Kha Tran Pham.
According to the police, Xuan Kha Tran Pham of Fairfax attacked two members of Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly's staff at his district office in northern Virginia.
CBS News reports that he is now in custody and faces charges of aggravated malicious wounding and malicious wounding.
The incident happened when the suspect arrived at Connolly's office where the congressman was at a ribbon-cutting event at a nearby food bank at the time of the attack.
The suspect approached an intern, who was on her first day on the job, at the reception desk and asked for him and then proceeded to beat her with a bat.
Other staffers heard the commotion and ran to the reception desk, which is when the suspect then turned on them and hit a senior aide in the head.
A spokesperson for the Fairfax City Police Department said officers arrived at the scene within five minutes.
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