ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Officers from the U.S. Capitol Police and Alexandria police department fired more than 40 rounds to subdue and eventually kill the man who shot and wounded Congressman Steve Scalise and others on a northern Virginia ballfield, a prosecutor's report has found. 
 
 The report released Friday by Alexandria Commonwealth's Attorney Bryan Porter concluded officers were justified in using lethal force to confront James Hodgkinson, 66, who wounded Scalise and four others, including a police officer, in June during a practice for a charity baseball game. 
 
 "This case did not present a close call," Porter wrote. "To the contrary, not only were the actions of the agents and officers reasonable, they were obligatory in light of the overwhelming and determined force employed by the suspect." 
 
 Hodgkinson fired at least 70 rounds, according to the report, including 62 from an SKS-style semi-automatic assault rifle. After Hodgkinson was first struck in the hip by an officer's bullet, he dropped the rifle and fired another eight rounds from a handgun. 
 
 The report states that an Alexandria officer and a Capitol Police officer each fired shots that struck Hodgkinson. The report credits the officers for pinning Hodgkinson down and placing him in custody within 10 minutes of the initial shots. 
 
 Hodgkinson later died from his injuries. 
 
 According to the report, Hodgkinson first opened fire from outside the third-base dugout of the field at 7:06 a.m. Capitol Police Special Agent David Bailey, who was at the field with partner Crystal Griner to provide routine security for Scalise, returned fire from an area near the first-base dugout. 
 
 After Bailey fired about 10 rounds, Hodgkinson was forced to take cover behind a press box behind home plate. It was there he exchanged fire with Griner, who was shot in the ankle. 
 
 Alexandria officers then began arriving at the scene. Kevin Jobe was the first to arrive, at 7:12 a.m., three minutes after the first 911 call. Alexander Jensen and Nicole Battaglia arrived shortly thereafter. 
 
 Jensen, using a police-issued Bushmaster rifle, fired the first shot that hit Hodgkinson, striking him in the right hip. In all, Jensen fired three rifle shots at Jensen, striking him twice. 
 
 Bailey and Jobe, confronting Hodgkinson from a different angle than Jensen, also fired at the suspect. The report concludes that one of Bailey's rounds struck Hodgkinson in the chest. 
 
 Jobe placed Hodgkinson in handcuffs at 7:15 a.m., and officers began efforts to resuscitate him. 
 
 The report does not delve into Hodgkinson's motive, but notes that he was angered by the election of President Donald Trump and was a supporter of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Before opening fire at the ballfield, he asked whether the congressional team that was practicing was Democratic or Republican. 
 
 It was Republican. 
 
 Porter acknowledged in his report that the legitimacy of the officers' use of lethal force was never really in doubt, but said it was still his duty to conduct a thorough investigation. He praised the officers' response and said the two police agencies worked well in tandem. 
 
 "The agents and officers are the paradigm of what law-enforcement officers should be and are true stewards of the public trust," he wrote. ||||| Baseballs are left behind by the dugout area at the Eugene Simpson Stadium Park where House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and multiple congressional aides were shot by a gunman during a Republican baseball practice in June. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Congressional baseball shooter was ‘casing’ field days before attack 
 
 The gunman who attacked GOP lawmakers at a baseball practice in June had previously visited the practice field before going on to fire "at least 70 rounds" at lawmakers, according to an official report released Friday that found police officers were legally justified in using force. 
 
 The report from Alexandria Commonwealth Attorney Bryan Porter focuses on the legality of the lethal force used against James Hodgkinson, the Illinois man who attacked the group of Republicans. Hodgkinson seriously injured House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and four others present on the field before he was killed in a shootout with Capitol Police and local officers. 
 
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 Porter's report also reveals several key details about the baseball field attack, including that Hodgkinson fired 62 rounds from an assault rifle and 8 rounds from a semi-automatic handgun, both legally purchased. According to the attorney's report, a local resident also observed Hodgkinson "casing" the area four days before the shooting when no lawmakers were present. 
 
 "Furthermore, at least one member of the Republican baseball team remembered seeing the suspect sitting in the Simpson Field stands and watching the team practice on the morning before the incident, June 13," the report states. 
 
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 Porter's inquiry into the shooting also analyzes the three shots that incapacitated Hodgkinson after a lengthy firefight with officers. Those shots were fired by Capitol Police Officer David Bailey and Alexandria Police Officer Alexander Jensen, according to the report. Bailey and Capitol Police Officer Crystal Griner, both members of Scalise's security detail, were the first law enforcement officers to respond in the attack, which caused injuries to Griner. 
 
 In addition to Bailey and Griner, credited by multiple GOP lawmakers with preventing further fatalities on the field, the shooting injured House GOP aide Zack Barth and lobbyist Matt Mika. Scalise made his first return to work in the Capitol last week, drawing standing ovations from colleagues on both sides of the aisle. 
 
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– James Hodgkinson had chosen Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria as his target up to two months before the shooting that injured five people during a Congressional baseball practice in June and had "cased the field" for weeks prior, the Washington Post reports. A 41-page report released Friday by Alexandria Commonwealth's Attorney Bryan Porter adds new details on the Virginia shooting. The report states Hodgkinson used his phone to take pictures of the field in April. And at least one member of the Republican baseball team targeted in the June 14 shooting remembers Hodgkinson sitting in the stands and watching them practice the day before, according to Politico. The report also includes details on the actual shooting, which lasted for nine minutes. The AP reports Hodgkinson fired at least 70 rounds—62 from an assault rifle and eight from a handgun. In response, police fired at least 40 rounds. Two shots fired by Alexandria police officer Alexander Jensen hit Hodkinson in addition to a shot fired by David Bailey, a member of Rep. Steve Scalise's security detail. Bailey in particular was credited in the report as having "helped avert disaster" by running onto the field while Hodgkinson was firing. The purpose of the report was to determine if officers' killing of Hodgkinson was "legally justified," which it was found to be. "Not only were the actions of the agents and officers reasonable, they were obligatory in light of the overwhelming and determined force employed by the suspect," the report states.