Four individuals died on the US Capitol grounds Wednesday and 52 individuals have been arrested, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert J. Contee mentioned Wednesday night, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented effort to cease Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.
In a late-night information convention, Contee mentioned that 47 of the 52 arrests thus far have been associated to violations of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 6 pm curfew, with 26 of these involving individuals arrested on US Capitol grounds.
Several others have been arrested on fees associated to carrying unlicensed or prohibited firearms.
In addition, Contee mentioned, two pipe bombs have been recovered from the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic nationwide committees, in addition to a cooler from a car on US Capitol grounds that contained Molotov cocktails.
Contee declined to determine the lady a Capitol Police officer shot and killed, saying subsequent of kin notification was nonetheless pending.
Three different individuals died on Wednesday due to medical emergencies, he added.
