The FBI in 2017 reportedly told members of Congress that a man who tried gunning them down was engaging in a “suicide by cop.” James Hodgkinson attacked a group of members playing in a charity baseball game in Washington that year, firing over 100 rounds before being shot by law enforcement officers. But FBI agents told members of Congress about five months later in a closed-door briefing that they designated the attack as a “suicide by cop,” or an effort to be gunned down by law enforcement. “The FBI said that it was ‘suicide by cop’ during their private briefing with Republican members on the baseball team,” Brandon Cockerham, a spokesman for Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who was present for the briefing, told The Epoch Times via email. A spokesman for House GOP Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), who was hit by bullets fired by Hodgkinson and required multiple surgeries, also confirmed …