Shots fired at US Capitol

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Posted Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:55 pm

2:20 PM Eastern Shots fired at the US Capitol. At least one person hurt badly enough to be tranported by helicopter to hospital

Incident started at Whitehouse, so before that, I guess.

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At the time of the event, Pluto was rising and Mercury at the Midheaven. Their average position (mundanely) is 9' from the angles.

Today, as mentioned elsewhere, transiting Saturn is exactly conjunct Cansolar Moon. We would expect the impact of frustration etc. to reach a head.

The Cansolar has the economically-interesting Jupiter-Mars rising (and a partile mundane Moon-Saturn conjunction). The Caplunar and Canlunar look a little lost with all the Neptune. And the only daily indicator, besides the Saturn transit, is Cansolar Neptune square the CanQ MC.

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Latest news is that it was a wild and crazy car chase but no shots fired.

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OK, there WERE shots fired, by apparently only by the police, if I'm reading this correctly. Latest from NY Times:

Woman in Washington Shooting Is Dead, Law Enforcement Officials Say

Law enforcement officers shot and killed a woman who had been chased in her car from the White House, law enforcement officials said.

The woman, whom the authorities did not identify, had “attempted to pass a barricade” near the White House, said Kim Dine, the chief of the Capitol Police, and struck an officer in the process.

Despite attempts by Secret Service officers to pull her over, she sped away from the White House, officials said.

Chief Dine said that the woman’s vehicle, a black Infiniti, also struck a police car on Capitol Hill before it crashed into a barricade. Shots were fired, the woman was struck and the authorities took her to a hospital.

A young child was found in the car, the authorities said. It was not clear whether the woman was armed when the authorities fired on her.

“We have no information that this is related to terrorism or is anything other than an isolated incident,” Chief Dine said.

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Secret Service says the time of the initial attempt to breech the barriers at the White House was 14:12 eastern.
The suspect was pronounced dead sometime after the crash, and she was shot at that time. The child is ok.

The DC police are running the investigation, and are "pretty sure" this wasn't an accident, but also don't think it was terrorism.

A Secret Service agent was struck by the car while it was backing up during the initial incident.
A Capitol Police officer was injured when his vehicle struck one of the barriers in the street. No word on why those barriers weren't raised sooner.

Other sources say the woman was from Connecticut, and FBI and Secret Service are at her home there now.