Miriam Carey reportedly feared President Obama was stalking her, which may have led her to go to Washington, D.C., where she crashed her car into the gate of the White House. She was later shot and killed by police.
The crazed Connecticut woman killed outside the Capitol after a Washington car chase apparently believed President Obama was stalking her, NBC News reported Friday.
Sources told the network that Miriam Carey, 34, had a history of mental health woes — and the slain woman’s mom said she battled postpartum depression after giving birth to a daughter last August.
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Relatives of Mariam Carey leave their home with their attorney in Brooklyn on Friday.
The little girl, riding in the car with her mom as the black Infiniti sedan careened from the White House to the Capitol, emerged unscathed from the wild ride and the shooting.
In Carey’s hometown of Stamford, authorities descended on an apartment building where the woman lived, said Chief of Police Jon Fontneau. The team of investigators totaled more than 100 people, including the FBI.
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The aftermath of the case shows emergency equipment scattered on the groun outside the black Infinity Carey was driving.
Police, armed with a search warrant, took an unspecified amount of evidence — some of it shipped immediately to a crime lab, the chief said.
Fontneau confirmed that the Stamford cops were called to her apartment last December, although he declined to provide any details other than to say it was not a criminal investigation.
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Raw video footage of police pointing their guns at the suspect outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
“It is a two-bedroom apartment, first-floor level,” he said. “It looked like your basic … apartment. Nothing out of the ordinary. She was nothing out of the ordinary that would call attention to herself.”
Carey was a dental hygenist who lost her job last year after patients complained that her treatment was too rough.
The dead woman’s mother, Idella Carey, told ABC News that she thought Miriam was taking her daughter to a doctor’s appointment in Connecticut before learning of the Washington tragedy.
The Thursday afternoon shooting further rattled Washington, where tensions were already high as the government shutdown continued and the city recovered from the Sept. 16 Navy Yard shooting that killed 13 people.
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