Rep. Mo Brooks told CNN that Rep. Brad Wenstrup from Ohio, helped Rep. Steve Scalise’s, R-La. after he was shot.
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Rep. Brad Wenstrup’s combat surgeon instincts kicked in after a fellow congressman was shot at a baseball practice Wednesday.
Wenstrup, of Columbia Tusculum, used some kind of scissors to cut through Rep. Steve Scalise’s pant leg to get to the Louisiana congressman’s wound, Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama told CNN. Wenstrup, a podiatrist, served as a combat surgeon in Iraq.
“I felt like I was back in Iraq, ” Wenstrup told CBS News.
Scalise was among five wounded in the morning shooting, officials told news outlets. All are receiving medical attention. Scalise is undergoing surgery after being shot in the hip, his office said in a statement.
For a time, “the field was basically a killing field, ” Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, told CNN. Fifteen to 20 U. S. representatives and two senators were on the field, Paul said. “I saw Scalise go down on second base, ” but gunshots were still hitting the dirt in left field, Paul told CNN.
“I don’ t think anyone would have survived without the Capitol Police, ” said Paul, who is uninjured. “Nobody else had a weapon. … It would have been a massacre without them.”
“After the shooter was down… we deferred to (Wenstrup’s) judgment on what to do, ” Brooks told CNN.
Brooks said they were trying to get liquids into Scalise as Wenstrup cared for him. “We were very lucky” to have Wenstrup there, Brooks said.
“Steve was conscious and OK. And that’s all I’ ll say about that, ” Wenstrup told CBS News. “They got him out of here” to get medical treatment.
“I’m glad I was there, ” Wenstrup told Fox News, “but it’s a sad day in America.”
Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, a true friend and patriot, was badly injured but will fully recover. Our thoughts and prayers are with him.
Sen. Jeff Flake, of Arizona, told CNN it took at least 10 minutes until shooter was down. During that time, Scalise lay alone on the baseball field. “We couldn’t get to him” because of the shots, ” Flake said.
“I was the first out to Steve, ” Flake said, and then Wenstrup arrived. “We applied pressure on the wound. He was coherent the whole time.”
“I got Steve Scalise’s phone and called his wife, ” Flake told CNN. He said he didn’ t want her to hear Scalise had been shot via the news.
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