

President Donald Trump spent the day inciting and praising a mob that stormed the Capitol, so much so that he has been locked out of Twitter and Facebook for at least 12 hours. Multiple sources familiar with the matter said there have been informal discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment among staff-level officials within the Trump administration. Lee, Kristen Welker, Hallie Jackson, Chuck Todd and Jane C. Police said three others also died during the events that unfolded Wednesday, but that they had suffered unspecified medical emergencies.Carol E. Around the same time, HuffPost reported hearing an officer say shots had been fired and said the glass of the chamber's doors had been blown out. It is unclear what exactly transpired in the lead-up to the shooting. The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department told BuzzFeed News they had transported a patient with "critical, life-threatening injuries" from the Capitol, and that CPR was performed.

Videos tweeted by one of the insurrectionists appear to show the moment the woman was shot and the immediate aftermath. Video of the incident shows the woman wrapped in a Trump flag, covered in blood, lying in the halls of Congress.įootage that aired live on MSNBC showed the woman, who has not yet been publicly identified, being rolled out of the building on a stretcher.

Her identity was withheld until her next of kin was notified. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee on Wednesday night confirmed the woman was shot by Capitol Police. The shooting occurred shortly after dozens of Trump supporters breached the government building, where lawmakers had been meeting to certify the presidential election until they were evacuated amid what can only be described as an attempted coup. A woman died after being shot in the neck inside the Capitol Wednesday during the violent pro-Trump riot that sent Washington, DC, into terror and chaos, police told BuzzFeed News.
