This 2011 photo provided by Dr. Barry Weiss, from the website of Advanced Periodontics in Hamden, Conn., shows former employee Miriam Carey. The 34-year-old Carey was shot to death by police after a car chase that began when she tried to breach a barrier at the White House. (AP Photo/Advanced Periodontics)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The sisters of a woman fatally shot by police in Washington after she tried to ram her car through a White House barrier say she wasn’t delusional and suggest she have been fleeing danger when she was killed.
Valarie Carey said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show on Monday that perhaps her sister, Miriam Carey, was afraid and fleeing with a 13-month-old child in her car when she was killed on Thursday.
Another sister, Amy Carey-Jones, suggests police overreacted or were negligent.
The sisters also disputed officials’ account that Miriam Carter was under the delusion that President Barack Obama was communicating with her.
Amy Carey-Jones said it’s “not the Miriam we knew.”
Police in Washington say they’re reviewing the use of deadly force.
