WASHINGTON, DC – January 6: Protesters gather inside the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump’s 306-232 electoral college. A group of Republican senators said they would reject votes from the Electoral College of several states, unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the results of the elections. (Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images)Getty Images
Four people died while supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the United States Capitol.
Washington, DC, Chief of Police Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by US Capitol police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies”.
Police said that both police and Trump supporters implanted irritating chemicals during the hour-long occupation of the Capitol building, before being released Wednesday night by the police.
The woman was shot on Wednesday as the crowd tried to break into a locked door on the Capitol, where the police were armed on the other side. She was hospitalized with a gunshot wound and then died.
DC law enforcement officials also say two bombs have been recovered, one outside the Democratic National Committee and one outside the Republican National Committee. Police found a refrigerator in a vehicle that had a long gun and a Molotov cocktail on Capitol grounds.
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