House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice last month, has been discharged from a Washington hospital, The Associated Press reports.
MedStar Washington Hospital Center says the six-term New Orleans-area Republican was released from the hospital Tuesday and is beginning “intensive inpatient rehabilitation” at an unidentified facility.
Scalise was in good spirits and looking forward to returning to work once he completes his rehabilitation, the hospital adds. On Monday, the wounded congressman phoned in to the weekly GOP whips meeting, thanking everyone for their hard work and expressing appreciation for U.S. Capitol Police.
Scalise and four other people were injured June 14 when a gunman opened fire on a Republican baseball practice in nearby Alexandria, Virginia. U.S. Capitol Police and other officers returned fire and killed the gunman, who had nursed grievances against President Donald Trump and the GOP.
Scalise, 51, Â was struck in the hip and the bullet tore into blood vessels, bones and internal organs. He has had several surgeries. Scalise’s trauma surgeon, Dr. Jack Sava, told reporters last month that Scalise had arrived at the hospital in shock, with intense internal bleeding and “an imminent risk of death.”
