{"id":1605571,"date":"2022-08-14T09:31:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605571"},"modified":"2022-08-14T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T13:40:36","slug":"man-crashes-burning-vehicle-into-u-s-capitol-barricade-begins-firing-gun-and-shoots-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-crashes-burning-vehicle-into-u-s-capitol-barricade-begins-firing-gun-and-shoots-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Crashes Burning Vehicle Into U.S. Capitol Barricade, Begins Firing Gun and Shoots Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-crashes-burning-vehicle-into-u-s-capitol-barricade-begins-firing-gun-and-shoots-himself%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605571&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">An unidentified man reportedly set his car on fire and drove into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-capitol-police-addresses-threats-disrupt-congressional-baseball-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Capitol<\/a> barricade before exiting his vehicle, firing a weapon indiscriminately and then shooting himself late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Capitol police<\/a> have yet to confirm the incident, which PBS first reported. There were no reported injuries aside from the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s motive in the incident is unknown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/capitol-police-officer-fired-weapon-cannon-office-building-suspended\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER DISCHARGES WEAPON INSIDE CANNON OFFICE BUILDING<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident comes more than a year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/capitol-locked-down-due-to-exterior-security-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another vehicle crashed<\/a> into a Capitol barricade in 2021, killing one police officer and wounding another.<\/p>\n<p>The attack killed officer Billy Evans and sent the Capitol Hill Police Department &#8220;reeling,&#8221; according to the Capitol Police union.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a developing story. Check back soon for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unidentified man reportedly set his car on fire and drove into a U.S. Capitol barricade before exiting his vehicle, firing a weapon indiscriminately and then shooting himself late Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1605612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}