Woman shot dead in Washington D.C. near U.S. Congress building [Blog + Video]

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U.S. Capitol shooting: Connecticut woman shot dead outside Capitol was ‘depressed,’ her mother says Relatives of Miriam Carey converged in Bushwick to try to make sense of the events that unfolded in Washington, where the 34-year-old dental hygienist and former Brooklyn resident led police on a pursuit toward the Capitol after trying to ram the White House gates. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), who said he was briefed by Homeland Security, said she did not appear armed. ‘There was no return fire,’ he said.

There was horror on the Hill when a crazed Connecticut woman who tried to ram her way into the White House was shot and killed Thursday after leading police on a high-speed chase through the heart of Washington.
Two police officers were injured trying to stop Miriam Carey, but the year-old baby girl she took along on her death ride somehow survived, police said.
Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist from Stamford who grew up in Brooklyn, seemed to suffer from mental illness since giving birth to her daughter last August, her mother said.

“She had postpartum depression after having the baby,” Carey’s mother, Idella Carey, told ABC News from her East New York home. “A few months later, she got sick. She was depressed. She was hospitalized.”
But friends, neighbors and associates couldn’t comprehend how the fun-loving person they knew was suddenly dead and the subject of a joint investigation by the FBI, the Secret Service, Connecticut State Police, Stamford police bomb team and the State of Connecticut.

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