{"id":107545,"date":"2015-04-12T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T06:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=107545"},"modified":"2015-04-12T06:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T06:49:14","slug":"gunmans-suicide-shuts-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=107545","title":{"rendered":"Gunman&#8217;s suicide shuts Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The US Capitol in Washington DC was in lockdown for nearly two hours after a gunman shot himself outside the building on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police took the security measure after shots were heard near the seat of the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Police also investigated a suspicious package, thought to be the gunman&#8217;s suitcase, on the lower west terrace of the Capitol building.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is not in session so there were few lawmakers about.<\/p>\n<p>However, the annual Cherry Blossom festival and sunshine attracted tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Those inside the building were reportedly told to stay there and visitors outside to take cover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Confirmed: self-inflicted gunshot by neutralized subject,&#8221; Capital Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>There appears to have been no sign of terrorist intent, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby streets were cordoned off as an investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p>It was the latest in a series of security incidents in Washington DC in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, a woman tried to drive her car past a security gate at the White House. She was shot dead in the subsequent car chase.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape full-width has-caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/media\/images\/82261000\/jpg\/_82261198_82261197.jpg\" alt=\"The Washington Capitol in lockdown after a shooting incident, 11 April 2015\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Bomb squad personnel were called in after a suspicious item was found<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Capitol in Washington DC was in lockdown for nearly two hours after a gunman shot himself outside the building on Saturday afternoon. Police took the security measure after shots were heard near the seat of the US Congress. Police also investigated a suspicious package, thought to be the gunman&#8217;s suitcase, on the lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":107546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-107545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}