The woman killed by police after a high-speed chase through Washington, D.C. suffered from post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter, the suspect’s mother told ABC News.
The woman believed to be 34 year old Miriam Carey is a dental hygienist from Stamford, Conn., authorities told the woman’s family, according to a family spokesman.
The woman led police on a chase down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol after ramming a gate at the White House.
“She had post-partum depression after having the baby” last August, said the woman’s mother, Idella Carey.
She added, “A few months later, she got sick. She was depressed. … She was hospitalized.”
Authorities took Carey’s 1-year-old girl from the car and put in “protective custody.”
Idella Carey said her daughter had “no history of violence” and she did not know why she was in Washington, D.C. She said she believed Carey was taking the little girl to a doctor’s appointment today in Connecticut.
Dr. Steven Oken, her boss of eight years, described Carey as a “non-political person” who was “always happy.”
“I would never in a million years believe that she would do something like this,” he said. “It’s the furthest thing from anything I would think she would do, especially with her child in the car. I am floored that it would be her.”
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