Rep. Mo Brooks told CNN that Rep. Brad Wenstrup from Ohio, helped Rep. Steve Scalise’s, R-La. after he was shot.<\/b>
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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.
\u00ab\u00a0I felt like I was back in Iraq, \u00a0\u00bb 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, \u00ab\u00a0the field was basically a killing field, \u00a0\u00bb Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, told CNN. Fifteen to 20 U. S. representatives and two senators were on the field, Paul said. \u00ab\u00a0I saw Scalise go down on second base, \u00a0\u00bb but gunshots were still hitting the dirt in left field, Paul told CNN.
\u00ab\u00a0I don\u2019 t think anyone would have survived without the Capitol Police, \u201d said Paul, who is uninjured. \u201cNobody else had a weapon. … It would have been a massacre without them.\u201d
\u201cAfter the shooter was down\u2026 we deferred to (Wenstrup\u2019s) judgment on what to do, \u201d Brooks told CNN.
Brooks said they were trying to get liquids into Scalise as Wenstrup cared for him. \u201cWe were very lucky\u201d to have Wenstrup there, Brooks said.
\u00ab\u00a0Steve was conscious and OK. And that\u2019s all I\u2019 ll say about that, \u00a0\u00bb Wenstrup told CBS News. \u00ab\u00a0They got him out of here\u00a0\u00bb to get medical treatment.
\u00ab\u00a0I’m glad I was there, \u00a0\u00bb Wenstrup told Fox News, \u00ab\u00a0but it’s a sad day in America.\u00a0\u00bb
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. \u00ab\u00a0We couldn’t get to him\u00a0\u00bb because of the shots, \u00a0\u00bb Flake said.
\u201cI was the first out to Steve, \u00a0\u00bb Flake said, and then Wenstrup arrived. \u201cWe applied pressure on the wound. He was coherent the whole time.\u00a0\u00bb
\u201cI got Steve Scalise\u2019s phone and called his wife, \u201d Flake told CNN. He said he didn\u2019 t want her to hear Scalise had been shot via the news.
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