A woman who was fatally shot in the Capitol after being overrun by a pro-Trump mob was shot down by a Capitol police officer, a police officer said Wednesday night.
Metropolitan Police Department chief Robert J. Contee told reporters that the woman was shot dead by a police officer on Wednesday afternoon when plainclothes police were confronted with the mob. She later died in a hospital, he said, and the shooting is being investigated.
At least 14 Capitol police officers were injured during Wednesday’s demonstrations, Chief Contee said, including two who were hospitalized.
A video posted on Twitter Wednesday showed a shooting in the Capitol.
The woman in the video appeared to be climbing onto a small ledge next to a door in the building just before a single loud bang was heard. The woman, wrapped in a flag, fell to the floor at the top of a stairwell. A man with a helmet and a military style rifle stood next to her after she fell, and they called “police” when a man in a suit approached the woman and crouched next to her.
“Where did she meet?” People screamed as blood flowed around their mouths.
Chief Contee said three more deaths were reported from the Capitol area on Wednesday – one woman and two men. He said, without elaborating, that the three people appear to have “suffered from separate medical emergencies that resulted in their deaths.”
