![]() ![]() ![]() "The line was moving along, and then it just stopped," said Mary Kusler, a top lobbyist for the National Education Association, who had already passed through the security check at the White House with her 4-year-old son and was heading toward the gates that open onto the South Lawn. The White House also was placed on lockdown. Those officers, Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson, are the only officers of that force to have died in the line of duty. In 1998, a mentally ill gunman opened fire at an entrance to the Capitol building, killing two Capitol Police officers. You have to think that the police are going to do everything they can to keep you safe Senator Charles Grassley In October 2013, a Connecticut woman was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after trying to drive through a White House security checkpoint, then racing down Pennsylvania Avenue and driving her car into a security barricade on the northeast side of the Capitol grounds. In April, a man shot himself to death on the Capitol building's west front in an apparent suicide. There have been several previous incidents of gunfire on the Capitol grounds. Tour group leaders said no reason was given, and there was no confusion or commotion, but that students learned the reason for the forced move within 30 seconds by checking news on their cellphones. At G and 2nd streets NE, a group of 80 high school students from California rested at a park after being moved from the Library of Congress. People who were near the Capitol building were led elsewhere. "Nobody can guarantee you a risk-free society." "You have to think that the police are going to do everything they can to keep you safe," Grassley said. He said the incident does not cause him to worry more about safety on the Capitol grounds. ![]() He said the shooting may have occurred outside the walls of the Capitol but only "about 100 feet from where people were murdered" in a shooting in 1998. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said he was informed of the shooting ahead of a town hall meeting in Ocheyedan, Iowa, and was assured that his staff was safe. I am not under the law!.Therefore I will not comply with the court order, nor will I surrender myself to your office." Police arrested Dawson in October after they said he interrupted a House session of Congress, shouting he was a "Prophet of God." A judge ordered him to stay away from the Capitol grounds, and in November he missed a court hearing, writing in a letter to the court, "I have been called chosen and sent unto you this day. Two law enforcement officials said while they have not conclusively verified the suspect's identity, they believe the man is Larry Russell Dawson, a 66-year-old from Tennessee who police described as a frequent visitor and protester to Washington. There is no reason to believe this is anything more than a criminal act." ![]() He said police "believe this is an act of a single person who has frequented the Capitol grounds before. Verderosa said the man is known to Capitol police from prior contacts, but he declined to elaborate. He said the man's car was found on the Capitol grounds. He said police recovered a weapon on the scene and that the man was undergoing surgery at the hospital. He said at least one officer opened fire and struck the gunman. ![]()
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