Police investigate thousands of potential threats against members of Congress each year.
"I have no reason to believe that his motivation was politically motivated, but it is possible that the sort of toxic political environment we all live in, you know, set him off, and I would just hope all of us would take a little more time to be careful about what we say and how we say it."Police named the suspect as Xuan-Kha Tran Pham, 49, of Fairfax.He is being held without bond on charges of malicious wounding and aggravated malicious wounding.
The attacker asked the woman if she was white and then hit her car windscreen with a bat before running away, police said. The woman was not injured. Xuan-Kha's father Hy Pham told the Washington Post that his son was schizophrenic and had suffered from mental illness since his late teens.The US Capitol Police investigated about 7,500 cases of potential threats against members of Congress last year.
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