Another depressed mom dies

AllVoices has an article about the recent incident in Washington:

Shots were fired near the Hart Senate building on Capitol Hill, between First Street and Constitution Avenue, not far from the White House, according to multiple reports, including CNN and Roll Call. Police immediately sent out a “shelter in place” order, which caused CNN correspondent Dana Bash to be locked in the reception area of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office as she was preparing for a one-on-one interview.
As Bash was doing a CNN live interview on the situation, she said Reid leaned through the door to say one person was injured.
CNN reporter Athena Jones gave a live interview by phone saying she heard multiple shots and saw people running and a dozen police cars approaching with sirens and lights flashing.
Capitol Hill police released the following statement:

Gunshots have been reported on Capitol Hill requiring staff in all Senate Office Buildings to immediately shelter in place. Close, lock, and stay away from external doors and windows. Take annunciators, emergency supply kits and escape hoods, and move to your office’s assigned shelter in place location or the innermost part of the office away from external doors or windows. If you are not near your office, go to the office nearest to you and shelter with that office and then check in with your OEC. No one will be permitted to enter or exit the building until directed by USCP. Staff is advised to monitor the situation. Further information will be provided as it becomes available.
The US Supreme Court building is also locked down.

Frustrations have run high as the government entered the third day of a shutdown that caused furloughs for approximately eight hundred thousand federal employees as the President, Democrats, and Republicans wrestle with a way to reopen the government.
Intelligence sources told Bash that police were chasing a car that started from an incident that happened near the White House and moved toward Capitol Hill. Sources said the woman driving was confronted at a checkpoint by Secret Service officers at 2:18 pm, when an argument ensued and she fled.
Authorization to use force was received by police, although they didn't know a young child was in the car at the time. Video shows the woman in a black sedan (photo) being confronted by police and surrounded by officers with guns drawn. Instead of surrendering, the woman backed into a patrol car and sped off as officers shot at the back of the car. A chase ensued as police followed the sedan at high speed in the direction of Capitol Hill. Witnesses said the car ran several red lights and appeared to be going around 80 mph at some points.
Police said there was one incident before this video and one after it at Capitol Hill, so it doesn't encapsulate the entire ordeal.
An officer was injured during the chase as his car reportedly ran into a barricade. He had to be removed from the badly damaged patrol car with the jaws of life and was airlifted to a local hospital. Reportedly, another officer was hit by the suspect's car at some point in the chase, but was only slightly injured.
Police removed the child from the car and the woman was injured during the gunfire. She was apparently shot several times as police fired into the driver's side of the car. She was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The President was informed of the incident right away, but it didn't appear he was in danger at any time.
The lockdown was lifted about thirty minutes after the incident began, once the driver was taken away and later pronounced dead. Witnesses said the whole incident lasted less than five minutes. All shots fired were reportedly from officers.
The woman's car had Connecticut license plates and an FBI task force is currently enforcing a search warrant at her home trying to determine what possible motivation there might be for her erratic behavior.
In a news conference with Capitol police chief Kim Dine, Ed Donavan of the Secret Service, and Metro police chief Cathy Lanier, they said the suspect was pronounced dead shortly after the incident. One officer was slightly injured and one that was airlifted to the hospital that is doing well and expected to be fine. They are processing three crime scenes after the suspect tried to breach two security perimeters, with shots fired at two, including where the suspect’s car was finally stopped at 2nd and Maryland near Capitol Hill. They agreed there wasn't anything at that point to indicate it was more than just a bizarre isolated incident and not related to terrorism.
Mike McCaul, chairman of Homeland Security, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer the suspect was a 34 year old woman of African-American descent with possible mental problems. Her eighteen-month-old daughter was taken to Child Protective Services pending an investigation. Other mainstream news reports identified the Connecticut woman as Mariam Kerry, a dental hygienist.

 

Time has an article as well:
A woman was shot dead by police outside the Capitol after an erratic high-speed car chase between two of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks.
After a black Infiniti crashed on a median near the Capitol, police fired on the suspected driver, identified as 34-year-old Miriam Carey from Stamford, Connecticut, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press.
As investigators searched the car, they found an unexpected passenger: the driver’s eighteen-month-old daughter. The young girl wasn’t seriously harmed in the crash and later taken into protective custody.
Carey’s mother Idella told ABC News that Miriam was suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter a year ago. “She was depressed,” Idella Carey said, adding that her daughter had “no history of violence”.
The chaotic incident began at the White House when Carey allegedly sped onto a driveway near the White House and attempted to pass a barricade. As police gave chase, the car sped about a mile down a main thoroughfare toward the Capitol building.
Video from television network Alhurra, shot from the Capitol steps, showed Carey’s car ramming into a Secret Service car guarding the building. Gunshots were heard as the car appeared to back up, turn around, and speed off, as police again gave chase. The car got stuck in the median moments later outside the Hart Senate Office Building, when police could be heard firing again. Washington, D.C. was brought to a standstill, as fear and uncertainty gripped the city still reeling from last month’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.
Capitol police chief Kim Dine called the incident an “isolated, singular matter” with no connection to terrorism. Police found no weapons in the car. A Secret Service member and a Capitol Police veteran were both injured in the incident, but were expected to recover.In the immediate fallout, as investigators worked to secure the area, Capitol Police gave orders to all employees at the Capitol to “shelter in place”. The legislative hub was put on lockdown for about thirty minutes.

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