Fox News: “Survivors of the 2017 Republican baseball practice shooting are appealing to FBI Director Christopher Wray to publicly declare the attack a case of domestic terrorism and say they never accepted that it was ‘suicide by cop.’ The issue came to light last week when Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup brought it up during a House Intelligence Committee hearing. He told Wray, who was not in charge of the FBI at the time of the attack, that the designation was unfair to survivors and failed to speak to the heroism of responding officers who thwarted the active shooter and saved all lives but that of the gunman. He later sent a letter to the FBI formally requesting a review of the designation. On June 14, 2017, a man armed with an SKS rifle and a 9mm handgun opened fire at a baseball practice where 24 Republican members of Congress and over a half-dozen other people had gathered the day before their annual fundraising ballgame against the Democratic team. Authorities later identified him as an anti-Trump, anti-Republican supporter of Bernie Sanders who frequently bashed the GOP on social media and had written numerous letters railing against conservatives to his hometown newspaper in Illinois.”

“He’d been living out of his van, parked near the scene of the attack in Alexandria, Va., for nearly two months. And before getting his guns from the vehicle, he asked Ron DeSantis, then a Florida congressman, and Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., whether the practice was being held by Republicans or Democrats. Survivors had been told during an FBI briefing in November 2017 that the bureau had designated the attack as ‘suicide by cop,’ several members of Congress, aides and others in attendance told Fox News. ‘We all said that’s not accurate,’ said Matt Mika, a former Tyson Foods lobbyist who was coaching the Republican team and was shot in the chest and arm. He declined to reference the gunman by name when recounting the incident, although it has been widely published, saying, ‘We don’t use his name.’ ‘He went there to kill Republicans, and he had a list of Republicans in his pocket,’ Scalise told Fox News Thursday. Scalise also noted that other agencies had publicly declared the assassination attempt an act of domestic terror, including the Department of Homeland Security and prosecutors in Alexandria.”