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U.S. NEWS Thursday 30 March 2017

Woman, 20, charged with plowing into Capitol Police cruiser

RICARDO ZALDIVAR Garden. Malecki said shots
BEN NUCKOLS were fired “during the at-
Associated Press tempt to arrest the sus-
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pect,” but she declined to
20-year-old woman de- say how many shots were
scribed as “erratic and fired or to elaborate further.
aggressive” drove a ve- The disruption happened
hicle into a U.S. Capitol Po- near the end of the morn-
lice cruiser and was taken ing rush hour and prompt-
into custody Wednesday ed a large police response
morning, a disruption that just as lines of people
closed down streets near were waiting to get into a
the Capitol for nearly three nearby congressional of-
hours. fice building. Streets near
Shots were fired during the the Capitol were closed,
arrest attempt, but the and the Sergeant at Arms
event appeared to be advised lawmakers and
criminal in nature with “no staff to stay away from the
nexus to terrorism,” said area. The streets reopened
Capitol Police spokeswom- nearly three hours later.
an Eva Malecki. No one Scott Ferson, president of
was injured, and the U.S. Liberty Square Group, a
Capitol remained open. A woman, center, is taken into custody on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Boston-based communi-
Late Wednesday after- Police say a driver struck a U.S. Capitol Police cruiser near the U.S. Capitol and was taken into cations firm, said he sud-
noon, police identified the custody. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) denly saw a dozen Capitol
driver as Taleah Everett, of Police cars moving quickly
no fixed address. She was toward the Botanic Gar-
charged with seven counts domestic-violence case at land did not immediately fled, nearly hitting officers den. Ferson said he heard
of assault on a police offi- roughly the same time as respond to telephone mes- and striking at least one what sounded like three
cer, among other offenses. the incident at the Capi- sages. Malecki described other vehicle, Malecki said. gunshots.
According to online court tol. She was the subject of the woman as an “erratic A brief pursuit followed “I heard pop, pop, pause,
records in Maryland, Ev- a no-contact order, the re- and aggressive driver.” As before the woman was pop and I said ‘Oh, that
erett was due in court cords show. police attempted to stop stopped. The chase took was gunfire,’” he said in a
Wednesday morning in a Relatives of Everett in Mary- her, she made a U-turn and place near the U.S. Botanic phone interview. q

Texas trooper: 12 dead, 3 injured in church van-truck crash

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — 12:30 p.m. on U.S. 83 out- crash also hasn’t been de- statement on the First Bap- Thursday.
Twelve people were killed side Garner State Park in termined, he said. tist website that the mem- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
and three others were in- northern Uvalde County, Photos and video of the bers were returning from and his wife, Cecilia, of-
jured Wednesday when said Texas Department of scene showed heavy dam- a three-day retreat at the fered their condolences in
a van carrying 14 church Public Safety Sgt. Conrad age to the front drivers’ Alto Frio Baptist Encamp- the hours after the crash.
members and a pickup Hein. sides of the small white ment in Leakey, about “We are saddened by the
truck collided on a two- The area is about 75 miles church van and the pickup 9 miles (14.5 km) north loss of life and our hearts go
lane Texas highway, au- (120.7 km) west of San An- truck. of where the crash hap- out to all those affected,”
thorities said. tonio. The vehicles appeared to pened. their statement said.
The group of senior adults It wasn’t immediately clear have collided on those The church officials were “We thank the first respond-
from First Baptist Church of if the lone person in the sides of the vehicles. “ministering to family mem- ers working on the scene in
New Braunfels, Texas, was pickup truck was among The back of the van was bers to help them deal with the wake of this unimagi-
returning from a retreat the victims killed or how up on a guardrail and de- this tragedy,” according to nable tragedy, and ask
when the crash occurred, many of the church mem- bris was scattered onto the the statement. Counselors that all Texans join us in of-
a church statement said. bers are among the dead, grass below. also were scheduled to be fering their thoughts and
The vehicles collided about Hein said. The cause of the Church officials said in a available at the church on prayers.”q