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Washington (CNN) The Democratic congressional baseball team, practicing on a separate field Wednesday morning, took cover minutes after the shooting at the GOP congressional baseball team's practice in Alexandria, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries told CNN.

"I was in left field. We were taking batting practice. We were all excited," Jeffries said. "In the middle of practice, Coach Mike Doyle, a representative from Pennsylvania, called us into the pitcher's mound, which I thought was weird."

The players were informed that there had been a shooting at the GOP practice on Eugene Simpson Field, according to Jeffries. When the Capitol Police arrived at the Democrats' field -- located more than eight miles away -- they urged lawmakers to shelter in place while they secured the premises.

"It was unclear whether there would be multiple places of attack," Jeffries explained.

California Rep. Nanette Barragan tweeted at 8:02 a.m. ET that the Democratic practice at Galludet University had been shut down, and was followed by a similar tweet from California Rep. Jared Huffman.