151 james t hodgkinson the man who allegedly opened fire at a congressional baseball practice in virginia on wednesday had a number of runins with the law before this mornings shooting multiple law enforcement sources have identified the alleged shooter as 66yearold hodgkinson of belleville illinois president donald trump said this morning that the gunman died in the hospital from wounds sustained in a shootout with police the fbi has released a statement saying the agency is actively investigating hodgkinson to include his associates whereabouts social media impressions and potential motivations a facebook profile believed to have belonged to hodgkinson included a number of posts related to politics some of which were critical of trump in some hodgkinson labelled trump a traitor and called for him to be impeached the profile has since been removed from facebook in march hodgkinson met with sheriffs deputies in illinois after they received calls that he fired 50 shots on his property he had a valid firearms owners identification card and authorities determined that no law was violated another incident took place in 2006 involving alleged domestic battery and unlawful discharge of a shotgun that case was dismissed separately hodgkinson had an extensive history of traffic violations and petty offenses in st clair county illinois spanning from 1989 to 2011 according to online county court records the vast majority of the cases were traffic violations and nearly all of them were dismissed the most recent conviction on his record was for a petty offense of failure to obtain an electrical contractors license in 2009 james t hodgkinson suspect in the shooting of congressman at a baseball game in alexandria va james t hodgkinsonfacebook hodgkinsons wife told abc news that he had been living in alexandria virginia for the past two months illinois secretary of state corporate records show that he had voluntarily dissolved his home inspection business jth services inc in december hodgkinson was reportedly a regular at the pork barrel bbq restaurant in alexandrias del ray neighborhood the restaurant is about eight blocks from the baseball field pork barrel bartender jamie craig said she immediately recognized hodgkinson when his photo was released and remembered him being a little shady most of the bartenders here are women she told abc news and he came off a little creepy apparently i just remember him being extremely quiet didnt really make eye contact she added craig said she served hodgkinson a handful of times in the past couple of months i just kind of kept it light and easy talking to him because he kind of gave me the creeps she said fbi special agent in charge tim slater said at a wednesday evening press conference that since march hodgkinson had been living out of his vehicle a white cargo van in alexandria slater said that it appears he was not working during his time in virginia the fbi is asking for information from the public about any interactions they had with hodgkinson