‘Out of control rage’: Devastating details emerge from violent baseball bat attack on Dem congressman’s aides

Details from the violent attack on staffers at the district office of U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) are emerging.

Congressman Connolly, who has served in the House of Representatives since 2009, says a man entered his office Monday morning asking for the Virginia Democratic lawmaker.

CNN's Manu Raju reports Rep. Connolly was at "a ribbon cutting [ceremony] at the time for a food bank when the assailant drove to his district office and entered the building."

The alleged assailant was carrying a metal baseball bat, Connolly told Raju, and exhibited "out of control rage," whacking one of the aides in the head.

"Rep. Gerry Connolly told me the assailant -- who attacked two of his aides today -- did so with a metal bat. The attacker struck one senior aide in the head with the metal bat, he said. The attacker also hit an intern -- on her first day on the job -- on the side with the bat."

"The attacker, who is a constituent from his district but who Connolly says he doesn't know, caused wide damage in his office, shattering glass in a conference room and breaking computers along the way."

"He was filled with out of control rage," Connolly told Raju.

This is a breaking news and developing story.