San Diego-based KUSI News was the first to hear from the family, who identified her as Ashli Babbit, a 14-year Air Force veteran who lives "in the San Diego area."
Her husband told KUSI she was a "a strong supporter of President Trump."
Fox 5 DC later heard from Babbit's family, and reported her husband did not come to Washington, D.C. Babbit's mother-in-law told the TV station, "I really don't know why she decided to do this."
Hundreds of Trump supporters entered the Capitol building in a bid to overturn his election defeat, forcing Congress to postpone a session that would have certified Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November 3 election.
A protester from New Jersey told Washington CBS affiliate WUSA he witnessed the woman being shot at the Capitol after police and other law enforcement officials warned people to get back.
"Well, we had stormed into the chambers inside, and there was a young lady who rushed to the windows; a number of police and Secret Service were saying, 'Get back, get down, get out of the way,'" he said.
"She didn't heed the call and as we kind of raced up to grab people and pull them back, they shot her in the neck, and she fell back on me."
The man told the local television station he saw blood coming from the woman's mouth and neck and nose.
“It could have been me, but she went first,” he said.
Law enforcement agencies in D.C. are investigating the circumstances of the shooting. No additional details, including who shot the victim or if anyone has been arrested, have been made publicly available.
Babbit was brought to a local hospital in critical condition, and was pronounced dead on Wednesday afternoon (local time).
A Twitter account purported to be Babbit's by both Fox 5 DC and the New York Post is full of retweets of conspiracy theories, including those pushed by pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood. The account also retweeted numerous threats of violence.
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Police shooting citizens in the Capitol, yet all the leftist mainstream media is howling "Everything is Trump's fault."
The US population has a constitutional right to have their voices heard and to protest in the Capitol if they choose. The Capitol building has been closed to the public for months, how are citizens supposed to make themselves heard and express this right otherwise?
Can you imagine what would have happened if this had been George Floyd? Oh wait, that's right...burning and looting cities, billions of dollars damage and dozens murdered. While the media called it "peaceful protests".
The real criminals are the tech giants and the media who have done nothing but attack President Trump over the last four years, turning people absolutely rabid at the thought of him with their propaganda.
The Left stokes dissent and hatred with their bias, censorship and attacks. Now twitter has censored the President.
This all needs to stop. The left cries victim while controlling and manipulating everything, and silencing anyone who dares to disagree.
Have you been reading Qanon again. Of course you have, we know all. Yours, Deep State.
So what, she was a strong Trump supporter. Like that is supposed to mean something? She also was a unarmed veteran, in the wrong place at the wrong time. The left and the media have stoked the fires for 4 years, what do you expect? Things are going to get a lot worse. Sleepy Joe spent a year in the basement of his house avoiding the media. There is no way he got the most votes in the history of US elections...no way. Congress and the courts hid the evidence from the american people. If Biden won and there was no fraud then let Trump and his 78 million followers see the evidence. They won't do it. Until they do, expect to see more rioting.
Seems even in NZ there are those that would follow blindly the conspiracies and indoctrination by Trump and the far right. I guess a conspiracy is alot more interesting than the truth. What strange times we live in...