Woman in car chase was depressed
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The mother of a woman who was shot to death by police after a car chase that began when she tried to breach a barrier at the White House in Washington DC said her daughter suffered from post-partum depression.
The harrowing chase on Thursday unfolded between two United States landmarks, briefly shuttered the chambers at the Capitol building where federal lawmakers were debating how to end a government shutdown and stirred fresh panic in a city where a gunman two weeks ago killed 12 people.
The driver was identified as 34-year-old Miriam Carey, of Stamford, Connecticut. She was traveling with a one-year-old girl who avoided serious injury and was taken into protective custody.
Carey's mother Idella Carey told ABC News on Thursday night that her daughter began suffering from post-partum depression after giving birth to her daughter Erica last August.
“A few months later, she got sick,” she said. “She was depressed. ... She was hospitalized.”
Police said there appeared to be no direct link to terrorism and there was no indication the woman was even armed. Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine, whose officers have been working without pay as a result of the shutdown, called it an “isolated, singular matter”.
Still, tourists, congressional staff and even some senators watched anxiously as a caravan of law enforcement vehicles chased a black Infiniti with Connecticut license plates down Constitution Avenue outside the Capitol and as officers with high-powered firearms canvassed the area.
The woman’s car at one point had been surrounded by police cars and she managed to escape, careening around a traffic circle and past the north side of the Capitol building. Video shot by a TV cameraman showed police pointing firearms at her car before she rammed a Secret Service vehicle and continued driving. Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier said police shot and killed her a block northeast of the building.
The chain-of-events began when the woman sped onto a driveway leading to the White House, over a set of barricades. When the driver couldn’t get through a second barrier, she spun the car in the opposite direction, flipping a Secret Service officer over the hood of the car as she sped away, said BJ Campbell, a tourist from Oregon.
Then the chase began.
One Secret Service member and a 23-year veteran of the Capitol Police were slightly injured, officials said.
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