Woman shot at Capitol was Air Force vet

SAN DIEGO — Like President Donald Trump, the San Diego woman fatally shot by police as a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol had used Twitter to amplify her views, including false allegations that November’s election was riddled with fraud.

“Nothing will stop us.... they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours.... dark to light!” Ashli Babbitt wrote Tuesday, a day before she and thousands of other Trump supporters took part in the siege in Washington, D.C., to try to keep the president in power.

Capitol Police on Thursday identified Babbitt, 35, as the woman who was fatally shot by an unidentified officer. Bystander video shows she was trying to climb through the broken window of a barricaded doorway inside the Capitol when the officer fired.

Babbitt’s husband, Aaron Babbitt, told KSWB-TV, a Fox affiliate in San Diego, that he sent his wife a message about 30 minutes before the shooting and never heard back.

“She loved her country and she was doing what she thought was right to support her country, joining up with like-minded people that also love their president and their country,” he said.

“She was voicing her opinion and she got killed for it,” he said.

Babbitt’s ex-husband, Timothy Mcentee, called her a “wonderful woman with a big heart and a strong mind” in an email to The San Diego Union-tribune. Mcentee said he and Babbitt were married from April 2005 to May 2019.

The Air Force said Thursday that Ashli Elizabeth Mcentee was on active duty from 2004 to 2008, most recently at Dyes Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas. She was also member of the Air Force Reserve from 2008 to 2010 and the Air National Guard from 2010 to 2016.