Four People Dead After Trump Supporters Stormed The U.S. Capitol

Four people died as supporters of Donald Trump violently occupied the U.S. Capitol.

Yesterday, Washington, DC Police Chief Robert Contee said that the dead included a woman who was shot by the U.S. Capitol Police as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies.”

According to police, both law enforcement and pro-Trump supporters deployed chemical irritants inside the Capitol building before it was cleared on Wednesday by law enforcement.

Ashli Babbit was the woman who tried to break through a barricaded door in the Capitol where police were armed on the other side, she was later hospitalized with a gunshot wound and later died.

D.C. police officials also say two pipe bombs were recovered, one outside the Democratic National Committee and one outside the Republican National Committee. Police found a cooler from a vehicle that had a long gun and Molotov cocktail on Capitol grounds.