US Capitol intruder 鈥榮table鈥 after surgery
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THE United States Capitol complex returned to normal yesterday, a day after police say officers shot and wounded a man who pulled a weapon at a security checkpoint as he entered the underground Capitol Visitor Center.
Capitol Police identified the man as 66-year-old Larry Dawson of Tennessee. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a police officer while armed. Dawson was taken to a local hospital and underwent surgery. Late on Monday, police said he was in stable but critical condition.
Dawson disrupted a House session last October by yelling he was a “Prophet of God.” He was issued a “stay away order” by the District of Columbia Superior Court that same month that required him to avoid the Capitol grounds, court documents show.
Monday’s incident, in which a bystander was slightly wounded, occurred at the tourists’ entry point to a building that had heightened security even before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and has had periodic scares ever since.
With last week’s suicide attacks in Brussels, Belgium, fresh on people’s minds, Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa held a brief news conference at which he preliminarily ruled out terrorism.
“We do believe this is an act of a single person who has frequented the Capitol grounds before and there is no reason to believe that this is anything more than a criminal act,” Verderosa, who became chief this month after about three decades on the force, told reporters.
The chief said he did not know how many officers had fired at the suspect but that no officers were injured, after initial erroneous reports that one had been hurt. Verderosa said a weapon he did not describe had been recovered at the scene.
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