Stamford Woman's Kin to Protest Her Death in Washington, DC

The family of the Stamford woman who was fatally shot in her car when she apparently tried to avoid security checkpoints in Washington, D.C., will mark the first anniversary of her death with a protest on Friday at the site where she was killed.

According to The Advocate, Miriam Carey’s older sister Valarie Carey said in a news release, “One year after Miriam Carey was shot to death by government officials, the Carey family and supporters are participating in a silent protest. “They wish to denote their want for a fair and unbiased federal investigation into the shooting and death of Miriam Carey at the hands of the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol police.”

The family, who lives in Brooklyn, NY, wants the public to join them in Washington at 1 p.m. Friday at the Garfield Memorial Circle on 1st Street. The protest is scheduled to end at 2:15 p.m. with everyone reciting the name of Miriam Carey five times, one for each time a bullet hit the 34-year-old, followed by a butterfly release in her honor.

Carey, who reportedly suffered from postpartum depression, apparently sped past security perimeters near the White House before she was fatally shot near the U.S. Capitol. Her family was unaware that she had driven with her 14-month-old daughter from her Woodside Green home in Stamford to Washington. Last summer, federal authorities refused to prosecute the officers involved in the shooting.

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Photo credit: Miriam Carey via NBC Connecticut.