Here’s first full account of just what happened this afternoon at the White House and Capitol Hill.
We’re still in that early period when we should treat all reports as tentative. But we’re getting the first outlines of what appears to have happened. We have multiple major news organization reports that the incident began when a women tried to ram the White House gates. That led to a car chase to the Capitol, with the Secret Service in pursuit, which ended with the woman being killed, presumably in the gunfire that started the lockdown at Capitol Hill.
TPM has not been able to independently confirm what appears to be the White House part of the story.
3:34 pm – conflicting reports on the suspect’s condition.
NBC news just reported that the incident began at the White House, apparently with an attempted breach of the security perimeter. We have no independent confirmation of this new detail.
TPM has made contact with a number of House leadership aides on both sides of the aisle. All under lockdown but all report they’re safe/fine.
DC police say they have no information on shooting incident.
FBI says they’re responding to the scene of reported shooting.
Capitol Police rushed tourists out of the building.
The US Capitol is currently on lockdown after reports of a shooting.
TPM has two reporters in the lockdown zone. We’ve communicated with both of them. And they are both fine.
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