Sisters of D.C. chase victim dispute police account

10-07-2013 • Associated Press

The sisters of a Connecticut woman fatally shot by police in Washington after she tried to ram her car through a White House barrier said Monday she wasn't delusional and suggest she may have been fleeing danger.

The two sisters of Miriam Carey, who was killed Thursday with her 13-month-old child in her car, disputed the accounts of officials and their sister's one-time boyfriend that she was under the delusion that President Barack Obama was communicating with her.

“What I do see is that perhaps maybe my sister was a little afraid being surrounded by officers with their guns drawn,” Valarie Carey said in an interview on NBC's “Today” show. “My sister was fleeing. She was trying to figure out how to get out of there.”

The other sister, Amy Carey-Jones, suggests police overreacted or were negligent.