Miriam Carey driver shot near US Capitol likely struggled with mental ...

Carey had received a diagnosis of postpartum depression with psychosis her sister Amy Carey Jones said in a Friday interview on Anderson Cooper 360 and had been treated with counseling and medication but was reducing her use of medication under a doctor s supervision. Carey Jones said her sister didn t appear to be unstable.

We will never know what Miriam was thinking in those last hours before she died her sister told Cooper. We can only speculate and our real concern is why and were things done properly. Was there some other way that she could have been helped so that it didn t end tragically

Rep. Michael McCaul (R Tex.) chairman of the Homeland Security Committee said the investigation has uncovered a picture of a mentally disturbed woman. Carey had been treated for schizophrenia he said but two of her sisters disputed his characterization.

McCaul said her condition may have been exacerbated by a recent head injury and that her boyfriend had called police to say she believed her apartment was bugged and Obama was behind it. Carey s sisters however said in their CNN interview that they had never heard her say anything of that nature. Valarie Carey called the boyfriend s account very questionable.

For now the biggest mystery is whether the incident that spun out 265 miles from Carey s home was the culmination of a long downward spiral or was sparked by some precipitating event.

Carey s mother Idella Carey told ABC News that her daughter had not shown any violence in the past. She said she thought Miriam Carey was taking her toddler to a doctor s appointment in Connecticut on Thursday.

Authorities are trying to trace Carey s movements in Connecticut and Washington where she apparently arrived only shortly before she approached a White House entrance and drove her car into a metal barricade just after 2 p.m. Thursday then struck a uniformed Secret Service officer.

After speeding down Pennsylvania Avenue she crashed at the Capitol grounds. Police scurried to carry the child to safety after her mother was shot several times.

In the New York City suburb of Stamford about 100 law enforcement personnel from the U.S. Secret Service FBI Connecticut State Police and Stamford police searched Carey s apartment in the Woodside Green complex overnight Thursday. They removed boxes bags and at least one computer from the sprawling complex where a neighbor had seen Carey wheeling her daughter in a stroller.

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