Crime & Safety
REPORT: Stamford Woman Who Led High-Speed Chase in D.C. Suffered Postpartum Depression
Details are slowly emerging about Miriam Carey, the 34-year-old dental hygienist whose toddler was in the backseat of her mom's car when the Stamford woman was shot to death.
One day after Miriam Carey led police on a high-speed chase in the nation’s capital that ended with her shooting death, details are emerging about the 34-year-oldStamford woman.
A dental hygienist who appears to have worked for a time in Hamden, she suffered from postnatal depression, Carey’s mother told ABC News, according to a USA Today report.
Carey was shot to death around 2:20 p.m. after leading police on a chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol bulding—there, officials discovered that Carey’s one-year-old daughter had been in the backseat of the black Infiniti she was driving the entire time, the Washington Post reports. Uninjured, the girl is in protective custody now. An officer in Washington, D.C. did sustain a non-life-threatening injury during the chase, police have told Georgetown Patch.
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According to the Post, Carey’s Brooklyn-based sister, Amy Carey, told reporters “that’s impossible” when delivered news of Thursday’s events.
“She wouldn’t be in D.C,” Amy Carey is quoted as saying. “She was just in Connecticut two days ago. I spoke to her.”
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When officials in the nation’s capital discovered that the Infiniti was registered under Carey’s name in Stamford, CT, they descended on the woman’s Woodside Green home, snarling traffic as they blocked off the area—located alongside one major north-south artery of the city—and removed items from the apartment.
Stamford city officials said in a statement late Thursday that they were cooperating with the FBI’s investigation and had no further information on Carey.
As Hamden Patch reported, Carey was featured two years ago in the newsletter of a Hamden based periodontic practice.
"We are excited to have Miriam!" the newsletter says. "She not only brings a delightful bedside manner, but also has a degree in nutrition that we hope to utilize in educating our patients about how important there diet is to maintaining optimum oral health."
Patch will have more information as it becomes available.
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