Woman dies after being shot during mob rioting at Capitol

Just before 3 p. m., Trump supporters began running out of the southeastern entrance of the US Capitol.

“They shot a girl!” someone yelled.

A team of paramedics with a gurney soon arrived and a Capitol police officer stepped aside to let them pass. “White female, shot in the shoulder,” the officer said as they hurried past. They emerged minutes later.

On the gurney was a woman in jeans, gazing vacantly to one side, her torso and face covered in blood. As the gurney was loaded into the back of the ambulance, pro-Trump protesters swarmed around it, screaming, “Murderers!”

Capitol police officers with long guns pushed them back, and the ambulance drove off.

The woman’s name was not released.

Dustin Sternbeck, spokesman for the District of Columbia police, said

Wednesday evening that the woman had died. He provided no further information as to the circumstances of the shooting.

At 3:30 p.m., more law enforcement in riot gear arrived at the Capitol.

“Traitors,” Trump supporters shouted. “What’s your oath?”

Biden condemned what he called an “unprecedented assault” on American democracy, “unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times.”

“This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos,” he said. “It borders on sedition, and it must end now.”

For hours, the president made little effort to quell the violence he had instigated, sharing a video at 4:17 p.m. in which he told people to “go home” — while continuing to promote the lie that he had won the election.

“We love you,” he told them. “You’re very special.”