Capitol and is primarily used by senators and staff.ĭ.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department reported that they received a 911 call at 1:05 p.m. The gated entrance that Green rammed is one of several that allow access to the U.S. Police or the USCP and was not previously considered a threat to lawmakers. He said Green was not known to either D.C. Contee III said there does not appear to be an ongoing threat related to the incident and that "it does not appear to be terrorism-related."Ĭontee said police are investigating to determine Green's motive. The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the suspect also appeared to have ties to Virginia.ĭ.C. The suspect was identified as Noah Green, 25, of Indiana, said a law enforcement official briefed on the inquiry. Another USCP officer at the Capitol that day later died by suicide, as did a member of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department who helped defend the building. Almost 140 Capitol Police officers were wounded in that attack. The USCP announced Friday the other officer “who was struck by the car is in stable and non-threatening condition.”Įvans' loss is a heavy blow for the USCP, which lost Officer Brian Sicknick when a mob of former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. Officers then shot the suspect, who later died at a hospital. Capitol Police officers," ignoring verbal commands, she said. EDT, a driver rammed his vehicle into two USCP officers near the Capitol and then continued to hit the barrier on Constitution Avenue. The suspect proceeded to exit the car, brandishing a knife and "started to lunge aggressively toward U.S. 6 attack.Pittman said in a news conference that at 1:02 p.m. Two officers, one from Capitol Police and another from Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, died by suicide following the Jan. The officer who died Friday is the seventh Capitol Police member to die in the line of duty in the department’s history. But the attack underscores that the building and campus - and the officers charged with protecting them - remain potential targets for violence. Pittman said the suspect did not appear to have been on the police’s radar. Fencing that prevented vehicular traffic near that area was recently removed. Authorities installed a tall perimeter fence around the Capitol and for months restricted traffic along the roads closest to the building, but they had begun pulling back some of the emergency measures in recent weeks. 6 riot, including Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who was among a badly outnumbered force trying to fight off insurrectionists seeking to overturn the election. It comes as the Washington region remains on edge nearly three months after a mob of armed insurrectionists loyal to former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential win.įive people died in the Jan.
Patrick Mahoney, said he was finishing a Good Friday service nearby when he suddenly heard three shots ring out. The attack occurred about 100 yards (91 meters) from the entrance of the building on the Senate side of the Capitol. The crash and shooting happened at a security checkpoint near the Capitol typically used by senators and staff on weekdays, though most are away from the building during the current recess. Capitol attack, orders flags at half-staff to honor slain officer Related: Biden ‘heartbroken’ over Friday’s U.S. There was also no immediate connection apparent between Friday’s crash and the Jan. Authorities said that there wasn’t an ongoing threat and that the attack did not appear to be related to terrorism, though the Capitol was put on lockdown as a precaution. Pittman did not identify the slain officer or suspect. 6 and now the events that have occurred here today.” “This has been an extremely difficult time for U.S.
Capitol Police and their families in your prayers,” Pittman said. “I just ask that the public continue to keep U.S.
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