--- title: Steve Scalise: Capitol Tourists React to Shooting description: The plaza around the U.S. Capitol was closed briefly Wednesday in the wake of the shooting at a Congressional baseball practice in Virginia. canonical: https://time.com/4818191/steve-scalise-shooting-capitol/ author: Emma Talkoff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-14T16:01:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:07:25.218Z article:section: Politics og:title: Visitors to Capitol Stunned by Shooting og:description: "You can tell here’s sort of an atmosphere of tenseness." og:url: https://time.com/4818191/steve-scalise-shooting-capitol/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c98f141d36b2bfe/6988d19ce76ad2123d62de35/capitol-hill-security.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: U.S. Capitol Police keep watch on Capitol Hill following a shooting in nearby Alexandria, in Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Visitors to Capitol Stunned by Shooting twitter:description: "You can tell here’s sort of an atmosphere of tenseness." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c98f141d36b2bfe/6988d19ce76ad2123d62de35/capitol-hill-security.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Visitors to Capitol Stunned by Shooting > Sponsored content. 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Police in Virginia were scrambling Wednesday morning to respond to reports of a shooting near a baseball field in Alexandria where Republican members of Congress were practicing for an annual charity game, and at least one lawmaker was shot._ by [Emma Talkoff](https://time.com/author/emma-talkoff/) ## Emma Talkoff Jun 14, 2017 4:01 PM UTC by [Emma Talkoff](https://time.com/author/emma-talkoff/) ## Emma Talkoff Jun 14, 2017 4:01 PM UTC The plaza around the U.S. Capitol was closed briefly Wednesday morning in the wake of the [shooting at a Congressional baseball practice](http://time.com/4817928/steve-scalise-congressional-baseball-game-biography/) in Virginia. Visitors stood around barriers at the plaza and waited in lines while security guards looked on. Capitol Hill plaza was closed this morning as part of heightened security in the wake of a shooting at a morning Congressional baseball practice in Virginia. Visitors stood at the barriers around the plaza and queued outside while guards looked on. “You can tell here’s sort of an atmosphere of tenseness, but that’s understandable,” said Jared Ropelato, a high school teacher visiting D.C. from California. “We sort of universally agree that seeing this is too important to let anything like that get in the way.” By around 10 a.m., the plaza had been reopened. Republican Rep. Phil Roe of Tennessee said that it was a moment of “soul-searching” for lawmakers and the nation at large. “I think both sides of the aisle feel really terrible about this,” Roe said. He likened the violence to scenes of triage that he experienced during his time in the Army Medical Corps in Korea. Roe also noted that Capitol Hill Police were only present at the scene of the shooting because House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was present. Without that additional security detail, Roe said, he believes the incident “would have been much worse.” Some visitors said that heightened security at the hill was reassuring. Jean Treacy, who was at the Capitol chaperoning a group of eighth graders from Danvers, Mass., said that the shooting had prompted concern from parents back home and “valid questions” from students on the trip. “I think we feel safe, actually, knowing there’s more security,” said Amy Fessette, another chaperone on the trip. ## Transcript And joining with this team to help confront the challenges that people all across this country are facing. We've got- Yeah. I'm just giving you a heads up on this. I don't know how long I'm going to be here cause I'm giving you you'll see there'll be a- How about you stay here and we'll go around? I think you should stay here, and we should go around. 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