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Shots Fired Near US Capitol - Live Feed

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/03/2013 14:27 -0400

Update: all clear given:

CAPITOL IS OPEN; LOCKDOWN ENDS AFTER SHOOTING
FEMALE SUSPECT REPORTED DEAD ON SCENE AT US CAPITAL: SOURCE
CAPITOL SHOOTING STARTED WHEN WOMAN TRIED TO RAM GATE AT WHITE HOUSE, THEN FLED. WAS SHOT WHILE TRYING TO HIT OFFICER. CBS.
Pete Williams: Driver in black car tried to breach White House gate, was pursued to Capitol Hill, shots exchanged near 2nd / Constitution
CHILD FOUND UNHURT IN CAR OF SUSPECT, ABC TWEETS

The car that started it all, which initially tried to ram the White House gate:

What may have caused it:

Sources: someone tried to ram #WhiteHouse gate/barricade, chase ensued, ending with shots fired on Capitol Hill.

— Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) October 3, 2013

#Breaking Photo of Car crashed into a guard shack near the #Capitol #Shooting. Unsure if its the suspect -@BerinSzoka pic.twitter.com/1d2fsCAXqw

— Twitsnoop (@Twitsnoop) October 3, 2013

Breaking news right now. US Capitol on lockdown after shots fired.

BREAKING: US Capitol in lockdown.

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2013

BREAKING: US Capitol on security lockdown: police

— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) October 3, 2013

Something happening outside Capitol. Police running around with guns at ready. pic.twitter.com/7JkF5fMzfS

— Alex Leary (@learyreports) October 3, 2013

SHOTS FIRED AT 2ND STREET AND CONSTITUTION AVENUE N.E.:REUTERS
CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES TOLD TO `SHELTER IN PLACE
SEVERAL INJURED IN CAPITOL SHOOTING, REUTERS SAYS ON TWITTER'
U.S. CAPITOL POLICE HAVE REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED AT 2ND ST AND CONSTITUTION AVENUE N.E., SEVERAL INJURED

The shooter appears to have been caught:

CAPITOL POLICE SAID SHOOTER IN CUSTODY

Live Feed from NBC:

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Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:28 | 4019764 azzhatter

Just some lady that just signed up for obamacare and saw the premium and lost it.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:31 | 4019778 Atomizer

+10

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:30 | 4019766 Father Lucifer

Women with child in car. Looks like the NSA missed another terrorist. See it could be any one of us. We must servey everyone! (sarc).

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:31 | 4019768 ebworthen

Another Parent killed and another Child left Parentless in the war on the common citizen.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 17:08 | 4020315 Mediocritas

All that force, all those personnel, all those fancy non-lethal weapons and they ALWAYS have to end up murdering the suspect (soon to be droning them). Do US authorities even bother learning live capture techniques these days?

I bet she never even had a gun at all.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:33 | 4019784 Peter Pan

Is this what they call a capitol offence?

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:34 | 4019791 Reader1

Uh-Ohhhh, looks like she didn't shoot nobody. Maybe she was just a really bad driver?

Harder to justify shooting some chick who can't drive. If we all did that, we would run out of women FAST!

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:36 | 4019813 HardlyZero

_{What do they have against single mothers...I guess we will find out who the father was and why she was at the gate, sad.}

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:35 | 4019792 involuntarilybirthed

Maybe just texting and Tackleberry let loose?

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:35 | 4019799 youngman

Good thing it was not a Tesla car.....all that return fire could have blown the batteries...then all hell could have broke loose.....

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:37 | 4019820 HardlyZero

Don't use the wires ! (like don't cross the streams) ... a little engineering humor.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 16:10 | 4020042 negative rates

That stock really should be in the crapper, maybe soon.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:35 | 4019809 Atomizer

Let's recap the importance of this shooting. The Government is shutdown & all services worked like a charm. Coughs, 800k of bloated government waste sits on the sidelines.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:37 | 4019814 involuntarilybirthed

Police/NSA state gone wild, again.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:36 | 4019816 Constitutional ...

Up next: start firing some editors, and others who over-reacted to this event. What have we got so far?

Wild mis-reporting at the outset of this episode, an entire capitol locked down, and a dead woman in a car with a child - after she ALLEGEDLY 'tried to ram' through a White House gate, and then sped away.

This looks more like a panicked response from a confused woman driver who was pursued by edgy, trigger happy humanoids. IF that is the case, then mass firings of a different sort are required within 24 hours.

Oh, and thanks to the previous ZHer for pointing out there was a drill by various civil and military groups ongoing at the time. The 'strategy of tension' advocated by the UN-CIA-MOSSAD-MI6 proceeds...

Whatever happened, there needs to be a cold, rational analysis of who did what and why ...

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:36 | 4019819 the iD

some lady with her kid in her little lexus prolly tried to make a 3point turn in the unfortunate spot in front of the WH and they opened up on her thinking there was a threat. then she prolly fled, looking for the nearest cop, which then opened fire on her, killing her. the cop that was injured hit one of those deployable pillars that pops out. this country is benny hill.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:42 | 4019853 ebworthen

Sounds like they may have gunned down an unarmed Mom.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:47 | 4019869 gafgroocK

I hope she didn't snap because she could not get an abortion on Monday, went beserk today, all because the Obama Care Website was down all day Tuesday and Wednesday causing her to miss the annoucment that the Federal Rules had changed, and that Obama was providing all of the abortions she wanted for free?

Boy, that would be a tragedy!

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 15:46 | 4019892 F.A. Hayek