"Obviously the way she responded at the gate near the White House and then turning around and hitting Secret Service." The woman was a resident of Connecticut and the girl in the car was her daughter, McCaul said. "I got that from multiple sources - that they think she may have had some mental health issues," he said.
Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, told CNN that officials believe the woman driving the car in Thursday's incident may have had mental health problems. The incident rattled Washington just three weeks after a government contractor opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard, about 1.5 miles from the Capitol, killing 12 people and wounding three others before he was shot to death by police. "I believe one of our officers rescued the child," who was taken to a hospital. "My understanding is there was a 1-year-old child in the car," Dine said. It finally came to a halt near the Capitol building, said Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine. Then the car, carrying a 1-year-old girl, raced up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol where Congress was in session. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said. Driving a black car, the 34-year-old woman rammed security barricades "at the very outer perimeter of the White House," U.S. "The suspect in the vehicle was struck by gunfire and at this point has been pronounced (dead)," Washington's police chief, Cathy Lanier, told reporters.
Capitol lockdown shot driver#
The identity of the driver - a woman - was not released. Capitol ended in gunfire on Thursday when law enforcement officers shot and killed the driver as lawmakers and aides huddled in a lockdown. By Richard Cowan and Margaret Chadbourn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dramatic car chase through the streets of Washington from near the White House to the U.S.
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