On October 3rd, Connecticut woman Miriam Carey led authorities on a wild car chase around the U.S. Capitol. This resulted in the injury of two police officers, one secret service agent, and fatefully the death of Carey herself.

She drove her black Infiniti sedan into a security fence outside of the White House. After hitting a secret service officer with the car, Carey took off. Authorities chased Carey for 12 blocks before she came to a stop.

After firing at Carey, police were able to scope the scene. Inside of the car was an 18-month child, who is believed to be her daughter.

Carey was believed to have mental health issues; she suffered from postpartum depression and was diagnosed with psychosis. In December of 2012, she told police that she was a prophet, and that the president would put the city of Stamford under “lockdown”. She continued to say that President Obama had residents of her city, along with herself, under surveillance. This is the only motive that authorities could possibly find for this attack.

The Secret Service was never notified of Carey, as she was not considered a threat to the president, due to the fact that no verbal threats or other evidence were made against him. Siblings of Carey point out there weren’t any signs of instability within a week before the shooting.

Some believe that the use of weapons was unnecessary in a case like this, including Miriam’s sister Valarie Carey, who is a retired police officer from New York City.

“There was no need for a gun to be used”, she says While it usually is against policy to open fire on a moving vehicle, as stated by John Miller (former FBI assistant director), because of its location near the White House and U.S. Capitol, high tensions were put on officers.

Speculation went around for a short while that this was possibly a terrorist attempt on the president, who was not in the White House at the time. Police say they’re confident that this episode on October 3rd was not random or an accident.