The woman who died on the federal Capitol was an Air Force veteran

The woman who was shot and killed in today’s Capitol protests has been identified as Ashli ​​Babbid, a veteran of the Air Force.

The FOX 5 network spoke to Lindsay Watts, Babbit’s mother-in-law, who lives in San Diego, who identified the woman as Ashli. “I don’t know why she decided to do this,” Watts said, pointing out that her son had not traveled to Washington with her.

The woman was shot in the Capitol by a police officer who tried to restrain the protesters, furious at the session of Congress scheduled to count the votes of the electoral college and certify Democrat Joe Biden’s triumph in the three presidential elections . from November.

“The woman is Ashli ​​Babbitt, who was a military man for 14 years and four times in the US Air Force,” said television network KUSI, which claims to have interviewed her husband.

Babbitt, who has not been officially identified by police, lived in the San Diego area of ​​Southern California with her husband, who described her as a “big supporter of President Trump.”

According to National Public Radio, quoting law enforcement agencies, the officer who shot is a woman who has worked on Capitol Hill for a long time and whom Ashli ​​was unarmed.

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