A top US Republican was among five people wounded in a "multiple shooting" during baseball practice in an upmarket Washington DC suburb.

'Killing field'

Who is Steve Scalise?

• House Majority Whip, the number three Republican in Congress, responsible for vote gathering
• Elected to Congress is 2008 having previously served in the Louisiana state legislature
• He apologised for speaking to a white supremacist group during a campaign event in 2002
• Former leader of the conservative Republican Study Group, which clashed frequently with former Speaker of the House John Boehner
• He married his wife Jennifer in 2005 and has two young children. They live in Jefferson, Louisiana

'A lot of ammo'