FBI responds to congressional baseball shooting survivors, dubs gunman 'domestic violent extremist'

The FBI has reclassified the 2017 congressional baseball shooter and would-be assassin as a “domestic violent extremist,” ditching the much-maligned “suicide-by-cop” theory that those on the field had condemned as unrealistic.

"Our intelligence and law enforcement apparatuses require accuracy, precision, and justice. I’m encouraged that the FBI has updated its classification of that nearly catastrophic event to reflect the actual motives of the assailant, and I commend Director Wray for his oversight of that correction," Wenstrup said Saturday. "I will continue to work with the Bureau toward investigating what led to the original 'suicide by cop' determination." The gunman, James Hodgkinson, fired well over 100 rounds at the congressmen, their aides and others present on the ballfield on June 14, 2017, after asking whether Republicans or Democrats were practicing there.