Woman shot and killed in storming of US Capitol named as Ashli Babbitt

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Earlier report: KUSI News confirms identity of woman shot and killed inside US Capitol (KUSI-TV)

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Source: The Guardian

Woman shot and killed in storming of US Capitol named as Ashli Babbitt

Police shot Babbitt, 35, a military veteran and Trump supporter, reportedly as she tried to break through door

Ben Doherty
@bendohertycorro
Thu 7 Jan 2021 13.35 GMT
Last modified on Thu 7 Jan 2021 16.04 GMT

A woman shot and killed by police during the storming of the US Capitol by a pro-Donald Trump mob has been named as a 14-year veteran of the US air force and of four foreign military tours, including to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ashli Babbitt, 35, had travelled to Washington DC from San Diego, her husband told the local news station KUSI, adding that she was a passionate Trump supporter.

Three other people died from “medical emergencies” during Wednesday’s siege of the Capitol, according to the Washington DC police chief, Robert Contee.

Contee has confirmed to reporters a woman was shot by Capitol police – a federal law enforcement agency responsible for protecting the US Congress – but has not released further details.

Less than a day before she joined the Trump loyalist protest, Babbitt, an avowed and public Trump supporter as well as a subscriber to a number of alt-right conspiracy theories, had vowed the insurrectionist movement could never be halted. “Nothing will stop us … they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours … dark to light!” she wrote on Twitter.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/ashli-babbitt-woman-shot-and-killed-in-storming-of-us-capitol-named