Washington is grieving again this Saturday after a man ran over two police officers, one of whom died, and crashed his vehicle into a fence protecting the U.S. Capitol, less than three months after a violent assault on the building. caused five deaths.
The image of the vehicle embedded against a barricade revived in the American capital the fear on January 6, when supporters of former President Donald Trump burst into this complex, in an unprecedented fact that forced to establish from then a security perimeter around the Legislature.
Local media identified the striker on Friday as Noah Green, a 25-year-old who in his student days played as a defender for the Christopher Newport University football team and who in recent years there was a debate between deep religiosity and episodes of possible paranoia.
After hitting the security barrier, Green got out of the vehicle with a knife in his hand and ran to attack the two officers, so he was shot by the uniformed men and later died in a hospital to which he was taken.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This Saturday, the Capitol Police Department, which has not yet provided new information on the investigations, expressed on Twitter its deep gratitude for the support received.
“We wish to be able to respond to each of you. Please let us know that we appreciate your sympathy beyond words,” the police said, referring to the messages of condolence received, including the president. American, Joe Biden, and his vice president, Kamala Harris.
Earlier, Capitol Police had indicated that the family of the deceased police officer, whom they identified as William ‘Billy’ Evans, an officer with 18 years of experience, was asking for privacy.
He also confirmed that the other officer hit – whose identity has not been disclosed – “is in stable condition and safe.”
“LONELY WOLF”
According to witnesses released Saturday by The Washington Post, family and friends were worried about Green’s condition.
In a statement released on Saturday and picked up by the Post, Green’s family clarified that “he was not a terrorist in any way” and indicated that he was apparently suffering from “depression and a possible mental illness”.
The young man’s relatives expressed “great sympathy” for the dead policeman and the other injured and noted that upon learning of what had happened “they were as bewildered as the rest of the nation by this horrible event.”
His brother, Brendan Green, said Thursday, a day before the incident in Washington, Noah was seriously ill in the apartment they shared in Virginia and what he came out with after texting him.
“I’m sorry, but I’m going to live and be homeless. Thank you for everything you’ve done. I admired you when I was a kid. You inspired me a lot,” Noah wrote to his brother Brendan.
Friends of the young man indicated that he attributed his problems to his former teammates and roommates to whom he pointed out to drug him in 2019 with the psychotropic drug Xanax.
However, a teammate indicated that people considered this version detached from reality.
Brendan Green admitted that his brother’s mind “did not appear to be well” after visiting him in Indianapolis, where he moved after leaving Newport News and where he alleged that there were people entering his apartment.
MESSAGES ON NETWORKS
Fox News spread information about the Facebook profile of the attacker, who was removed from the social network shortly after the incident following his policy of Dangerous People and Organizations.
In his profile, Fox News noted, Noah Green posted photos and videos of rallies by the black group Nation of Islam and identified himself as a “follower of Farrakhan,” in reference to Louis Farrakhan, a figure. as charismatic as it is controversial by its supposed anti-semitism and black supremacism.
Farrakhan, who leads the African American Muslim organization Nation of Islam, founded in 1935 by Elijah Muhammed, was considered by Green to be the “Jesus, the Messiah.”
On his Instagram account, the young man blamed the government for his problems and accused federal agencies of trying to conduct mind control experiments on it, according to local media.