Standing. And surrounded the car. Reporter the woman driver suddenly backed up, hit a cruiser, turned, and sped away. Police opened fire. gunfire furloughed Government Employee peter plocky was right there. There. Reporter how rapid were the shots . Quite rapid. It was like boom, boom, boom. Reporter the driverred headed for a nearby Traffic Circle and continued to speed erratically around the west front of the capitol billion. A short time later her car jumped a curb and finally came to say stop on the east side of the capitol. She had been shot multiple times and later died. Inside the car, police found a young child and quickly rushed her to safety inside a nearby Senate Office building. The bizarre incident began shortly after 2 00, about a mile and a half away near the white house. Sources say the black infinity hit a barricade at the Northeast Corner of the white house complex. Investigators do not know if the driver tried to ram the security lockade or simply sideswiped it. Secr
Odonnell good evening. Scott is on assignment. Im norah odonnell. With much of the Government Shutdown, republicans and democrats at each others throats, terror still an ever present threat, fear spread through washington today when shots suddenly rang out at the capitol. People on the streets ran for cover. Police armed with heavy weapons fanned out. The Capitol Building and the white house with the president inside went into lockdown. The shooting was the end of a car chase that began when a car hit a barrier outside the white house. Homeland security correspondent bob orr is with us. Bob. Reporter good evening, norah. Well, much of Downtown Washington tonight is a crime scene after that chaotic and frightening car chase and shooting that played out between the white house and capitol hill. At midafternoon, Police Closed in on a black infinity coupe on capitol hill. Cruisers tried to pin the car against some sidewalk barricades as other responding officers drew their weapons. Frank s