2 LIVES Killer driver and beloved cop
The suspect was a one-time college jock whose troubling recent behavior included bizarre social media posts and rampant paranoia. The victim was an 18year veteran of the U.S. Capitol Police, a familiar and friendly figure inside the Washington, D.C., landmark.
Details emerged Saturday about the disparate lives of knife-wielding Noah Green, 25, killed after slamming his car into a security barricade outside the Capitol one day earlier, and highly regarded Officer William “Billy” Evans.
“Always either a kind word or a good morning,” recalled Washington-based CNN producer Kristin Wilson of the Massachusetts-born law enforcer, survived by his mom and two kids. “Just a really pleasant guy.
Never an unkind word.”
The bizarre and fatal incident also raised questions about security at the Capitol, coming nearly three months after the Jan. 6 insurrection that left another officer dead. The building’s grounds remain off limits to the public, with a ring of fencing still surrounding the Capitol’s inner perimeter.
“The scab got ripped off again,” said Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio). “So we’ve got to figure this out.”
Green, a former college football player, struggled with mental health issues in his final years. His brother Brendan told The Washington Post that his younger sibling grew increasingly paranoid, threatening suicide and asking for help in a recent teary phone call.
Plagued by hallucinations, heart palpitations and headaches, he moved into Brendan’s
Virginia apartment about two weeks before taking his car for one final, fatal ride.
Noah’s “mind didn’t seem right,” his brother told the Post, recounting his sibling’s suspicions of people breaking into his apartment and claims that he was dosed with Xanax by former football teammates at Christopher Newport University.
On the night before his death, Noah Green became violently ill in his brother’s apartment and later sent Brendan a disturbing text.
“I’m sorry but I’m just going to go and live and be homeless,” read the text, recounted in the Post. “Thank you for everything you’ve done. I looked up to you when I was a kid. You inspired me a lot.”
Noah Green lived in Indianapolis before a trip to Africa earlier this year. His Facebook page listed Green as a follower