An individual armed with a metal baseball bat entered the Fairfax, Va., district office of Rep. Gerald E. Connolly on Monday morning, asked for the congressman and then allegedly assaulted two staffers with the bat.
Both staffers were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to a tweet from Connolly, the Virginia Democrat who has represented the state’s 11th District since 2009. Connolly was not in the office at the time of the assaults, Capitol Police said.
The City of Fairfax Police Department arrested the suspect. Capitol Police identified the alleged assailant as Xuan Kha Tran Pham, 49, of Fairfax. He faces charges of one count of aggravated malicious wounding and one count of malicious wounding.
