Woman shot by SS, police, during attempted attack on the White House (1 Viewer)

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http://kfor.com/2013/10/03/u-s-capitol-on-lockdown-after-shots-fired-nearby/
UPDATE 2:53 p.m. – Washington authorities said the female suspect in the D.C. Capitol shooting was shot and killed.


Guards paroling after D.C. Capitol shooting. Courtesy: Joe Shikhman, Legislative intern for NY Congressman Michael Grimm

NBC News reported the D.C. Capitol shooting started when the woman tried to ram her car, with her baby inside, into a White House gate.

Authorities said the Secret Service chased her and she exchanged gunshots with police near the Capitol.

She was shot and died less than an hour later.

According to NBC News, her child is OK.

They said an officer was injured during the chase.

Her identity has not yet been released.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Gunfire erupted Thursday near the U.S. Capitol, bringing a swarm of emergency vehicles to the heart of the government in response to an emergency that locked down Congress.

Police also closed Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.

CNN’s Athena Jones, who was at a Senate office building near the Capitol, said she heard gunshots that sounded like fireworks.


Guards paroling after D.C. Capitol shooting. Courtesy: Joe Shikhman, Legislative intern for NY Congressman Michael Grimm

The FBI dispatched units in response to reports of shots near Garfield Circle, which is on the Senate side of the Capitol.

CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash learned that one person was injured.

No further details were immediately available.

House and Senate sessions were immediately suspended.

A Capital Police bulletin said reports of gunshots required “all occupants in all House office buildings to shelter in place.”

“Close, lock and stay away from external doors and windows,” the bulletin said.

Authorities later lifted the lockdown, Bash later reported.

UPDATE 2:11 p.m. – The lockdown has been lifted at the Capitol.

UPDATE 2:08 p.m. – Shooting and danger is over at this point, according to Washington authorities. Now the investigation will begin.

So far, no word on the shooter’s identity or motive.

UPDATE 2 p.m. – Many of those responding to the emergency scene are not being paid for it because of the government

UPDATE 1:57 p.m. – NBC News reporting shooting started at White House and continued more than 10 blocks to the Capitol.

UPDATE 1:50 p.m. – Washington authorities said they have a suspect in custody.

A CNN photojournalist said he heard at lease a dozen gunshots at the corner of Constitution and Maryland.

Authorities said one officer has been injured.

They have not confirmed if he was injured by a gun shot or another way.

WASHINGTON – The Capitol is on lockdown after police said shots were fired outside the building Thursday afternoon.

The Associated Press reported police said one officer has been injured.

 

[Witchfynde]

What another chick with issues ......... how unusual !!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry girls

 

[Pixiedust]

Nah, no offense taken....lol. I wonder if she was a govt employee.....

 

[dankhead]

Here is more info on her via NPR:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...prfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

An officer stood just outside police tape Thursday as authorities investigated the car chase that began at the White House and ended near the Capitol.

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The woman killed by police Thursday after a wild chase from the White House to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol has been identified by law enforcement authorities to The Associated Press, NPR and other news outlets as 34-year-old Miriam Carey of Stamford, Conn.

The Story So Far ...

• The incident began at 15th and Pennsylvania Ave NW around 2:12 p.m. ET Thursday. That's at the edge of the White House grounds near the Treasury Department.
• It ended a few miles away near the U.S. Capitol, leaving a suspect — identified by law enforcement sources as 34-year-old Miriam Carey — dead.
• A child who was traveling with the woman in the car is OK and in protective custody.
• At the White House, a Secret Service agent was struck by the vehicle. Near the Capitol, a U.S. Capitol Police officer was injured when his vehicle was involved in a collision. Both are expected to be OK.
• The event appears to be an isolated incident, not linked to terrorism, according to Capitol Police.

What motivated the driver to ram a security barrier outside the White House, strike a Secret Service officer with her vehicle and then drive off at high speed toward the Capitol Building — all while there was a 1-year-old girl inside the car — isn't yet known.

Miriam Carey's mother, Idella Carey, has told ABC News that her daughter "had post-partum depression after having [a] baby" last August. According to Idella Carey, "a few months later, she got sick. She was depressed. ... She was hospitalized."

The Stamford Advocate adds that Miriam Carey "was a licensed dental hygienist and according to a local law enforcement official, she suffered from mental illness, but had no criminal record."

The little girl was not injured during the frightening incident.

Our colleagues at WSHU in Fairfield, Conn., report that "police fire, and other emergency vehicles [have] descended on a Woodside Green Condominiums near Scalzi Park in Stamford Thursday afternoon where the woman [Miriam Carey] allegedly lived. ... About 50 apartments were evacuated."

The Advocate writes that:

"According to public records, Carey lived near her family in Brooklyn, N.Y., from at least 1997 to 2009, when she moved to Stamford. She earned her dental hygiene license from New York State in 2002, and after letting her license expire in July 2008, she applied for and received a license to practice in Connecticut in September 2009. In 2011, she started her own temporary employment firm called Experienced Dental Placements out of her condo. ...

"Before entering the condo Thursday evening, police used a bomb-detecting robot to enter Carey's unit, 1C at 114 Woodside Green. Federal agents showed neighbors a photo of the suspect, but did not identify the woman, according to neighbors. Residents of the 212-unit complex were still not being allowed to re-enter their homes as of 9 p.m.

"At one point, two plain-clothes officers escorted a woman into the building and emerged a short time later, the woman carrying a small, white dog."

 

[Zargon the great]

She was shot by a retarded nigger.