Police shoot armed man at US Capitol checkpoint

Police shot a man after he pulled a weapon at a US Capitol checkpoint as spring tourists thronged Washington.

Police shoot armed man at US Capitol checkpoint
Tue, 29 Mar, 2016 - 08:04

Police shot a man after he pulled a weapon at a US Capitol checkpoint as spring tourists thronged Washington.

The suspect was previously known to police, who last October arrested him for disrupting House of Representatives proceedings and yelling he was a "Prophet of God".

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