{"id":28973,"date":"2013-10-03T14:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T19:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28973"},"modified":"2013-10-04T19:14:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T00:14:42","slug":"shooting-at-u-s-capital-white-house-barrocade-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28973","title":{"rendered":"Woman’s Mental State “Deteriorated,” D.C. Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"capitalshooting\"STAMFORD, Conn. (AP Oct 4, 2013) – Police in Stamford, Conn., say they had gone to the home of Miriam Carey in the past — but that it wasn’t in response to any crime. They’re not offering any details. But a federal official says investigators have found that Carey’s mental state had been deteriorating in recent months — and that she was delusional, believing that President Barack Obama was communicating to her. Thursday, with her one-year-old daughter in the car with her, she rammed a barrier outside the White House and was pursued by police to Capitol Hill, where she was shot and killed.<\/p>\n

Reported previously<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP Oct 3, 2013) – Witnesses and officials say a woman driving a car with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade, led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where police shot and killed her. The child was taken from the car to a hospital. Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrence Gainer says he knows of no harm to the child.<\/p>\n

Tourists watched the shooting unfold on Constitution Avenue outside the Capitol today as lawmakers inside debated how to end a government shutdown. Police quickly locked down the entire complex temporarily, and both houses of Congress went into recess.<\/p>\n

Texas Congressman Michael McCaul, citing a Homeland Security Department briefing, said the woman was killed. Asked if she was armed, he replied: “I don’t think she was. There was no return fire.”<\/p>\n

Police described it as an isolated event and saw no indications of terrorism.<\/p>\n

Earlier…<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP Oct 3, 2013) – Police say the gunfire outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday began when a woman tried to ram through a White House barricade with her car. Witnesses and officials say the woman then led police on a chase that ended outside the Capitol. Police say the woman was taken into custody, and a young child who was with her was taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n

A Congressman says police killed driver outside Capitol.<\/p>\n

Fox News Channel confirmed that the woman has died.<\/p>\n

The entire Capitol complex was locked down for about an hour.\u00a0 A police officer was injured when the car crashed outside the Capitol, but the injuries weren’t life-threatening.<\/p>\n

A senator is describing.\u00a0 Democrat Bob Casey of Pennsylvania told reporters he was walking from the Capitol to the Senate Russell Office Building across the street when he noticed several police officers driving fast up Constitution Avenue on motorcycles. Within seconds, he says, he heard “three, four, five pops,” which he assumed were gunshots. He says police ordered him and nearby tourists to crouch behind a car for protection. In about two minutes, he said, the officers moved everyone into the Capitol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP Oct 4, 2013) – Police in Stamford, Conn., say they had gone to the home of Miriam Carey in the past — but that it wasn’t in response to any crime. They’re not offering any details. But a federal official says investigators have found that Carey’s mental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28973"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29130,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions\/29130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}