A guy is dead after driving his automobile into a barrier outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and then opening fire as he exited his flaming vehicle before shooting himself to death.
On Sunday soon before 4:00 a.m., an incident occurred at a car blockade put up at East Capitol Street and 2nd Street in Washington.
The individual, whose name has not been disclosed, smashed into the barrier, and when he exited the vehicle, it burst into flames, according to Capitol Police.
As police approached, the guy then opened fire, firing multiple bullets into the air. He then turned the pistol on himself and was subsequently declared dead.
No other injuries were recorded, and authorities do not think that any policemen fired back. There is yet no known motivation for the incident, but authorities are investigating. Police said in a statement that ‘it does not seem that the suspect targeted any members of Congress’ and that police are analyzing the suspect’s past to determine a motivation.
At that hour, both the House and Senate are in recess, and relatively few staff workers are present in the Capitol complex.
In the days after the FBI’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, law enforcement agencies around the nation are seeing an increased number of threats, and federal officials have warned of the possibility of violent assaults on government facilities. Officer William ‘Billy’ Evans, a 41-year member of the Capitol Police, was killed in April 2021 when a guy rammed a car into two policemen at a checkpoint, killing him. Officer Evans was an 18-year veteran of the department.
The driver, 25-year-old Noah Green, exited the vehicle with a knife and was fatally shot by a third officer after lunging at him. The investigators think that Green was deluded and increasingly suicidal.
Evans, a father of two, was raised in North Adams, Massachusetts, a 13,000-person community in the state’s northwest. His death occurred almost three months after the January 6 Capitol riots, which resulted in the deaths of five individuals, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who passed away a day after the uprising.
After pro-Trump protestors stormed the Capitol, months of barbed wire fence encircled the edifice.
Since then, the fence has been dismantled and hundreds of National Guard soldiers who were sent in reaction to the January uprising have returned to their bases, but many on Capitol Hill remain on edge.