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U.S. NEWS Saturday 17 June 2017

Scalise doctor hopes for ‘excellent recovery’ despite risk

By ERICA WERNER which can affect clotting,
LAURAN NEERGAARD something doctors will
Associated Press monitor closely. Infection
WASHINGTON (AP) — Con- also is a risk, especially if the
gressman Steve Scalise can intestines were perforated.
hope to make an “excel- Scalise was wounded when
lent recovery,” his trauma a gunman opened fire at
surgeon said Friday, even a GOP lawmaker base-
though the lawmaker ball practice Wednesday
arrived at the hospital morning. The fact that his
Wednesday at imminent injuries brought him close
risk of death after getting to death was not widely
shot at a congressional known initially.
baseball practice. Sava said Friday that there
In his first public comments are hundreds of bullet frag-
since the shooting, Dr. Jack ments in Scalise’s body, but
Sava of MedStar Washing- “we have no intention to
ton Hospital Center said it’s try and remove all the bul-
a “good possibility” that the let fragments at this point.”
Louisiana Republican will Damage from a bullet oc-
be able to return to work in curs when it’s traveling.
his full capacity. Once it has lodged in bone
Sava declined to put a or muscle, “it’s not going
timeline on when that to do anything. All you’re
would happen or when doing is stirring up more
Scalise, 51, would be able MedStar Washington Hospital Center Director of Trauma Dr. Jack Sava speaks during a news con- trouble” by making an-
to leave the hospital. The ference in Washington, Friday, June 16, 2017, about the condition of House Majority Whip Steve other incision larger than
Scalise of La. who was shot in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, June 14, 2017, during a congressional
doctor described how a baseball practice. the fragment to try to get
bullet from an assault rifle (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) it out, explained Dr. Debo-
entered Scalise’s hip and pital’s intensive care unit. said. brought out of sedation rah Stein, trauma chief at
traversed his pelvis, shat- Scalise, the No. 3 House Since then, the lawmaker periodically and been able the University of Maryland’s
tering blood vessels, bones Republican, arrived at the has undergone multiple to recognize and commu- Shock Trauma Center.
and internal organs along hospital via helicopter in surgeries and procedures nicate with his family, Sava Nonetheless, said Sava,
the way. shock, with intense inter- to stop the bleeding and said. “We fully expect him to be
For now, Scalise remains in nal bleeding and “an im- repair bone. He has been Scalise has received mul- able to walk” and “hope-
critical condition in the hos- minent risk of death,” Sava sedated, but has been tiple blood transfusions, fully run.”q

Tennessee “hero” says Georgia fugitives surrendered to him

By ERIK SCHELZIG enforcement who had quickly loaded his guns. He said he never had to Rowe and Ricky Dubose
KATE BRUMBACK nothing to lose and for Moments later, he saw pull out his weapon — but suddenly focused on Ten-
Associated Press some reason they surren- them climb over his fence the wait was agonizing, in nessee Thursday evening
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — dered and laid down on and approach his home, part because he realized after the fugitives invaded
The man credited by law the concrete in my drive- where he was alone with that he had left a loaded a home in Shelbyville and
enforcement with holding way,” Patrick Hale said. “If his little girl. shotgun in his pickup truck held a man and his wife
two Georgia prison escap- that doesn’t make you be- He decided to flee — get- in front of his house, possi- hostage for several hours.
ees at gunpoint until police lieve in Jesus Christ, I don’t ting into his car with his girl. bly within their reach. That couple “are lucky
arrived rejected the “hero” know what does.” Then, just as he prepared More than 45 police officers they’re alive,” Bedford
label on Friday, and said Hale said friends had just for the worst, the inmates began showing up within County Sheriff Austin Swing
credit should go to forces alerted him that the fugi- took off their shirts and three minutes, he said. said. The fugitives “ told
well beyond his control. tives wanted in the slayings waved them in the air in a “I cannot tell you how them that they would prob-
“I realized I had two ex- of two prison guards had sign of surrender. He thinks grateful I was to see them ably be dead in 24 hours
cons wanted for murder been spotted in his area they mistook his car for a arrive,” Hale said. and they didn’t have any-
who had just shot at law of rural Tennessee, so he law enforcement vehicle. The manhunt for Donnie thing to lose.”q