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Critical condition tonight. He is one of four people shot during practice for the congressional baseball game to be played tomorrow evening. Two others were also injured in the attack. The gunman was killed by the congressmans security detail. Chip reid is in alexandria. Nancy cordes is at the capitol. Well begin with chip. Reporter well, scott, we may be just outside of washington, d. C. , but people who live in this neighborhood call it small town, u. S. A. You can see a playground behind me. At 7 00 a. M. , there were parents and their children playing in this playground. And over here you can see a aseball field. And there was a relaxed and jovial practice going on there by the republican members of the house of representatives when suddenly shots rang out. Steve scalise, a congressman from louisiana, who is the third ranking republican in the house, was standing by second base. En suddenly went down, shot in the hip. He tried to crawl into the outfield to get away from the shootin ....