“Shots fired” at baseball practice

Gary Caruso | Thursday, August 31, 2017

Slightly after 7 o’clock one overcast morning in mid-June, the U.S. Capitol Hill Police Communications Command Center heard two words broadcast from an unidentified female officer: “Shots fired.” It was the worst of any possible scenario for the center — not knowing who reported an active shooter, who was the intended target, its location nor