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Police opened an investigation after a Republican headquarters in Volusia County, Florida was riddled with bullets last weekend, party officials said.
At least four shots were fired in the night from Sunday to Sunday, Fox News, the Republican president of Volusia County, told Fox News on Monday.
Ledbetter said "everything was fine" when the volunteers left the building around 4 pm Sunday, but when they came back at 9:30 on Monday, at least one window was broken.
The president said that he thought it was "more than likely a shooting." The Daytona Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News's requests for comments on the incident Monday afternoon.
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The representative of the Democratic State, Patrick Henry, who oversees Volusia County, said in a statement that he was "discouraged and angry" about the shooting, stressing that "your political affiliation should only never make you a target of armed violence. "
"As a nation, there is absolutely no room for violence in our political speech," Henry wrote in a statement posted on Facebook on Monday. "I am grateful that no one has been hurt."
Florida Republican Party President Blaise Ingoglia echoed Henry's response, said in a statement Monday afternoon[s] against any kind of violence against any volunteer, republican or democrat ".
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"It is incredible to me that we have reached a low point in the political discourse where campaigners must now fear for their safety," he said. "People should have the right to exercise their right to freedom of expression without fear of reprisal."
The shooting comes just days after 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc was arrested in Florida for allegedly sending bombs to a number of prominent Democrats and critics of President Trump. Prosecutors charged him with five federal crimes on Friday. He appeared for the first time in federal court on Monday in Miami.
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