No joke on Capitol Hill as Cops are running with machine guns as reports of shots being fired at Capitol pic.twitter.com/vdjAKkLP4y
— Marc Schloss (@marcschloss) October 3, 2013
“We heard pop, pop, pop, pop – maybe four shots,” says Sen. Casey who was walking over to #Capitol with other senators
— Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) October 3, 2013
NBC staffer at Capitol tells MSNBC: “10 or 15 gunshots in rapid succession” saw black vehicle drive away, officers chase
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) October 3, 2013
Scene at the Capitol, via @CNN: pic.twitter.com/84r2UcOS8O
— Daily Intelligencer (@intelligencer) October 3, 2013
Harry Reid confirms “one injury” to CNN
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) October 3, 2013
PHOTO: Capitol Hill police and medics take a person away on a stretcher at the site of a shooting on Capitol Hill pic.twitter.com/aHrX2VEAdy
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) October 3, 2013
Breaking: Someone tried to ram gate at the White House, then fled to Capitol Hill. Shots were fired, but unclear by whom.
— ABC News (@ABC) October 3, 2013
This appears to be the vehicle that crashed in police station at 2nd/Constitution #capitolhillshooting pic.twitter.com/RkkATjZcIj
— Jordan Sekulow (@JordanSekulow) October 3, 2013
Glad to hear Capitol lockdown is lifted. I would urge folks not to make assumptions; we’ll have facts on the event soon enough.
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) October 3, 2013
Good news is: #shutdown meant the street was basically empty when #HillShooting happened.
— Berin Szoka (@BerinSzoka) October 3, 2013
The smashed up police car: pic.twitter.com/g5qInZnJka
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 3, 2013
This has been a really terrible couple of weeks in DC. #Shutdown #NavyYardShooting #Capitol
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) October 3, 2013
More updates at the Guardian live-blog. Update: confirmation from Reuters regarding Twitter reports on the fate of the suspect:
A woman suspected of being involved in a car chase across central Washington was shot and killed by police outside the U.S. Capitol building on Thursday, a U.S. official said. The incident, which sparked a lockdown of Congress, began when the woman tried to ram through security barricades outside the White House. The official said a Capitol policeman was injured when the car driven by the suspect crashed outside the Capitol.
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