Miriam Carey, 34, identified as woman killed in Capitol shooting after taking police on high speed chase. Carey, from Connecticut, rammed her car into a barricade near the White House. Miriam Carey had a one-year old child in the car with her.

Miriam Carey is a dental hygenist, according to the ­­­the New York Post and the New Haven Register. She has a history of mental illness. CNN reports that a task force of FBI and Secret Service agents was executing a search warrant at her Connecticut home.

This was cross-posted from The Hinterland Gazette.