China News Agency, Washington, April 2 (Reporter Sha Hanting) The Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police said on the 2nd local time that a suspect drove to the police outside the U.S. Capitol in the afternoon and has caused the death of one Congressman. A congressional police officer was injured.

The suspect has been shot dead.

  The Acting Chief of the US Congress Police, Yogananda Pittman, described the incident at a press conference that day.

Pittman said that the suspect drove into two congressional police officers on the north side of the Capitol and then crashed into a roadblock.

After getting out of the car, the suspect stabbed the congressional police with a knife. He was hit by the congressional police and died.

  Pittman said that two congressional policemen were immediately taken to the hospital after being injured, and one of them was dead.

  Pittman also stated that since the violent attack on Congress by demonstrators on January 6, "Congress police have been in an extremely difficult state, and this happened again today."

She hoped that the people would pray for the congressional police and their families.

  The Acting Commissioner of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department Robert Contee said at a press conference that the incident that day "seems not to be related to terrorism", but that investigations are still needed to investigate the motives of the suspect.

  The Congressional Police Department subsequently issued a statement confirming the identity of the police killed.

The police officer is William Evans, who has served as a police officer in the Congressional Police Department for 18 years.

  According to the US media citing sources familiar with the matter, the identity of the suspect in the incident has been confirmed and is a 25-year-old male named Noah Green.

  After the incident, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Pelosi asked the Congress to lower the flag at half-staff to pay tribute to the police killed.

U.S. President Biden issued a statement saying that he was "heartbroken" and asked the White House to lower its flag at half-mast in mourning.

  On January 6 this year, while the Congress was counting the electoral votes in the presidential election, demonstrators violently stormed the Congress, killing at least five people.

After the incident, the Congress took a series of measures to strengthen security, including setting up a 2-meter iron fence around the Congress, closing roads, National Guard patrols, and restricting personnel access.

  Recently, Congress began to remove the outer iron fence and lift the road closure. The outer fence of the Capitol is still in place and the National Guard is still stationed.

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