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  • Capitol Hill Incident: Details Emerge

    Capitol Hill Incident: Details Emerge

    On Thursday, October 3, 2013, at approximately 2:30PM, a driver rammed into a vehicle barricade on 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, near the White House. The driver then initiated a brief high-speed pursuit, and fled toward Capitol Hill, where shots were fired.

    There were senators and tourists near the scene at the time. Edmund Ofori-Attah, a tourist, described how the shooting unfolded after the police chased a black Infiniti coupe up Constitution Avenue. Attah walked toward the scene as the car stopped, when he heard gunfire and went to the ground for protection. Senator Bob Casey, from Pennsylvania, was walking across the street from the Capitol to the Senate Russell Office Building when he noticed officers speeding past on motorcycles. He also told reporters that “within seconds of that, he heard pops that sounded like shots”. Senator Sherrod Brown also noted how officials made them crouch down behind a vehicle for cover. FBI agents rushed to the scene and officers moved people into the Capitol. Those standing outside the Supreme Court were hustled into the court building as well. There was a brief lockdown of the entire complex, for precautionary measures.

    This incident comes two weeks after the Navy Yard shooting that killed thirteen individuals, including the suspect. In this case, there were no weapons used by the suspect or found in the car. The Capitol Hill incident injured police officers, who are expected to recover, and also left the suspect, Miriam Carey, dead due to gun shot wounds. Fortunately, her one-year old child, who was later found to be in the car, was not injured.

    According to family and friends, Carey suffered from post-partum depression and other mental issues, but they believed that she was feeling and doing much better. A man who spoke to reporters expressed his current concerns about mental health issues and its effects. “There needs to be more services out there to help those people so that incidents like this that happen around the country don’t happen again.” The incident is being further investigated for more details.

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  • Capitol Suspect Had Post-Partum Depression

    The woman who caused chaos on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. yesterday has now been identified as Miriam Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist from Stamford Connecticut. She was shot dead by police after leading them on a high speed chase through downtown. Carey had a 1-year-old daughter named Erica. Police confirmed that a 1-year-old girl was taken from the car and put in “protective custody.”

    Now, perhaps investigation into the incident has led to a cause for this apparent lunacy. ABC reports that Carey suffered from post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter last August.

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    “She had post-partum depression after having the baby”, said the woman’s mother, Idella Carey.”A few months later, she got sick. She was depressed. … She was hospitalized.”

    Carey said her daughter had “no history of violence” and she did not know why she was in Washington, D.C. She said she believed Carey was taking the little girl to a doctor’s appointment today in Connecticut.

    Her boss of eight years, Dr. Steven Oken, described Carey as a “non-political person” who was “always happy.”

    “I would never in a million years believe that she would do something like this,” he said. “It’s the furthest thing from anything I would think she would do, especially with her child in the car. I am floored that it would be her.”

    However, Miriam’s neighbor, Erin Jackson, was asked if she believed Carey suffered from a mental illness, and she said “absolutely.”

    Jackson said she believed Carey lived in the Stamford home with the baby and the girl’s father. She recognized the black Infinity sedan seen on television from the incident as resembling Carey’s car and said the woman’s tires recently were slashed in an incident in Connecticut.

    Miriam Carey was the only fatality in the incident in Washington D.C. yesterday, but two officers, one from Capitol Police and one from Secret Service, were injured. Could this shed new light on the dangers of post-partum depression?

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