Miriam Carey, 34, the woman shot and killed by police in Washington, D.C. after leading police on a high speed chase, was suffering from post-partum depression, her mother Idella Carey told ABC News.[1] The dental hygienist’s one-year-old daughter Erica was in the car with her when she was shot and killed. “She had post-partum depression after having the baby” last August, said the woman’s mother, Idella Carey. She added, “A few months later, she got sick. She was depressed. … She was hospitalized.” Read more from ABC News below: Idella Carey said her daughter had “no history of violence” and she did not know why she was in Washington, D.C. She said she believed Carey was taking the little girl to a doctor’s appointment today in Connecticut. Dr. Steven Oken, her boss of eight years, described Carey as a “non-political person” who was “always happy.” “I would never in a million years believe that she would do something like this,” he said. “It’s the furthest thing ...
