Perawat Gigi Ditembak Mati setelah Terobos Gedung Putih

Dental Hygienist Shot Dead after Ramming Her Car into the White House

Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani


Perawat Gigi Ditembak Mati setelah Terobos Gedung Putih
Mendiang Miriam Carey semasa hidup (kiri) putrinya berusia 18 bulan diselamatkan oleh polisi (Foto2: Mail Online)

SEORANG ibu asal Connecticut yang ditembak mati oleh polisi kemarin setelah menerobos penghalang di depan Gedung Putih bersama putrinya di dalam mobil. dia mengira Presiden Obama membuntutinya, kata sumber yangberwenang hari ini.

Penyidik ​​menemukan indikasi bahwa Miriam Carey menderita delusi karena sejarah penyakit mental, seperti dilaporkan NBC Connecticut yang dikutip Mail Online.

Kamis malam, ibunya mengungkapkan 34-tahun telah menderita depresi postpartum sejak melahirkan putrinya Erica tahun lalu.

Inilah petunjuk pertama yang mengungkap aksi perawat kesehatan gigi itu nekat mengemudikan mobil mewah Infiniti dari rumahnya di Stamford yang berjarak 270 mil ke
Washington, DC - ketika ia ngebut dengan mobilnya ketika sebagian besar aktivitas di ibukota AS ditutup, Kamis.

Bayi usia 18 bulan anak Erica - yang berada di kursi belakang - tidak terluka, meskipun pengawal presiden (Secret Service) dan polisi Capitol AS menembaki mobilnya dengan 15 peluru.

Putri Erica selamat dari aksi penyergapan meski mobilnya dipenuhi lubang peluru setelah ibunya ditembak mati. Sang balita kini berada pusat perawatan anak.

Aksi nekat itu rupanya dipicu fakta bahwa Carey digugat oleh asosiasi kondominium, tempatnya bermukim lantaran telat membayar biaya sewa.

Komplain tagihan itu diajukan pada November oleh asosiasi  bangunan Stamford yang menyatakan Miriam Carey terlambat membayar biayanya secara penuh sejak Agustus 2010 dan berutang kepada asosiasi sebesar US$1.759 (Rp20 jutaan).

Gugatan itu diselesaikan pada bulan Februari.

Gugatan hukum yang disampaikan oleh Woodside Green Association mengindikasikan Carey mengambil kredit pemilikan kondominium di Stamford sebesar US$237.616 (hampir Rp2,5 miliar) pada September 2009.

Idella Carey mengatakan kepada ABC News bahwa putrinya, Miriam 'mengalami depresi setelah memiliki anak' pada Agustus 2012.

"Beberapa bulan kemudian, ia jatuh sakit. Dia tertekan .... Dia dirawat di rumah sakit," kata Ny Carey.

Dia pikir Carey membawa putrinya, Erica ke dokter di Connecticut.

Wanita usia 34 tahun ini memiliki lima saudara, salah satunya adalah seorang perwira polisi di New York Police Department (NYPD).

Saudarinya, Amy Carey - seorang perawat di Brooklyn - mengaku tidak percaya ketika diberitahu tentang apa yang terjadi pada saudarinya oleh reporter Washington Post.

"Itu tidak mungkin. Dia bekerja, dia punya pekerjaan. Dia tidak akan berada di DC. Dia ada di Connecticut dua hari lalu," katanya. "Saya berbicara dengan dia ... Saya  tidak tahu apa yang terjadi. Saya tidak bisa menjawab lagi."
Dokter Gigi Barry Weiss mengatakan kepada NBC Connecticut bahwa Carey bekerja untuknya sejak Januari 2012 ketika dia mengalami masalah dan kerap bolos kerja dua sampai tiga minggu.

Ketika dia kembali hamil, sang dokter gigi memecatnya pada Agustus 2012 setelah pasien mengeluh bahwa ia berperilaku kasar.

Dia tidak menikah dengan ayah sang bayi tapi 'tampak bahagia' tentang kehamilannya, kata mantan bos.

Pihak berwenang mengatakan orangtua tunggal ini memiliki 'sejarah penyakit mental' tapi belum tergolong kronis.

Tetangganya, Erin Jackson mengatakan kepada ABC ia percaya Carey tinggal di rumahnya di Stamford dengan bayi dan ayah gadis itu.

THE Connecticut mother who was gunned down by police yesterday after ramming a White House barrier with her young daughter in the car thought President Obama was stalking her, law sources said today.

Investigators have found indications that Miriam Carey suffered delusions due to a history of mental illness, NBC Connecticut reports.

Last night her mother revealed the 34-year-old has suffered from postpartum depression since giving birth to her daughter Erica last year.

These revelations are the first clues as to what led a seemingly happy dental hygienist to snap and drive her Infiniti luxury sedan 270 miles from her home in suburban Stamford to Washington, DC - where her rampage put the nation's capital on lock-down Thursday.

Carey's 18-month-old daughter Erica - who was in the back seat - was not injured, despite the Secret Service and U.S. Capitol police firing up to 15 shots into her car.

Little Erica was rescued from the bullet-riddled car after her mother was shot dead. She is currently in the custody of child services workers.

It emerged today that Carey had been sued by her condominium association for failure to pay fees.

The complaint filed in November by the association for the Stamford building said Miriam Carey had failed to pay her fees in full since August 2010 and owed the association $1,759 in addition to collection costs.

The lawsuit was settled in February.

The lawsuit by the Woodside Green Association indicates Carey took out a mortgage on her Stamford condo in the amount of $237,616 in September 2009.

Idella Carey told ABC News that her daughter Miriam 'had postpartum depression after having the baby' in August 2012.

'A few months later, she got sick. She was depressed.... She was hospitalized,' Mrs Carey added.

She thought Carey was taking Erica to a doctor's appointment in Connecticut.

The 34-year-old has five sisters, one of whom is an NYPD officer.

Another, Amy Carey - who is a nurse in Brooklyn - expressed disbelief when told about what happened to her sister by a Washington Post reporter.

'That's impossible. She works, she holds a job. She wouldn't be in D.C. She was just in Connecticut two days ago,' she said. 'I spoke to her...I don't know what's happening. I can't answer anymore.'

Dentist Barry Weiss told NBC Connecticut that Carey was working for him in January 2012 when she suffered a fall and missed two-to-three weeks of work.

When she returned she was pregnant but he later fired her in August 2012 after patients complained that she was too rough.

She was not married to the father but 'seemed happy' about the pregnancy, the former boss said.

Authorities said the single-mother had a 'history of mental illness' but did not elaborate.

Neighbor Erin Jackson told ABC she believed Carey lived in the Stamford home with the baby and the girl's father.