The Connecticut mom shot dead by cops after a high speed chase near the White House was not delusional or obsessed by President Obama, her sisters declared Monday.
“She didn’t have any disputes with [Obama]. She didn’t have an political agenda or talk badly about President Obama. She was not walking around delusional, which is really what we want the public to understand. She was not delusional,” said Amy Carey-Jones of Brooklyn, who appeared on the Today show with her sister Valarie Carey.
Their sister Miriam, 34, was killed in a hail of bullets Thursday afternoon after a wild chase in and around Pennsylvania Avenue that caused a lockdown in the already-tense capital.
Sources said Miriam Carey, who drove to DC from her Stamford home with her 13-month-old daughter in the car, was convinced Obama was having her electronically monitored so her life could be shown on TV.
“Those things don’t sound correct, which is why we’re speaking out for her, because that’s not the Miriam that we knew,” Carey-Jones told Matt Lauer.
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The sisters acknowledged that Miriam had been under a doctor’s care for postpartum depression, but that she had been taken off medication and remained under medical supervision.
The sisters emphatically answered no when asked if Miriam’s erratic behavior – ignoring cops’ orders to stop, ramming a police car and speeding off at 80 mph with her child in the car – were to blame for her dramatic death.
“What I do see perhaps is that my sister was a little afraid being surrounded by officers with their guns drawn,” said Valarie Carey, who questioned official accounts of the incident.
“If in fact she wasn’t supposed to be in a restricted area, how was she allowed to drive in that area? If you hear gunshots, [she’s] like ‘I’m afraid, I don’t want to be here. I want to get out of here. I have a baby in the car.’ My sister was fleeing. She was trying to figure out how to get out of there,” she said.
Carey-Jones also questioned cops’ response.
“I feel that things could have been handled a lot differently. Maybe there was some bit of overreaction or some negligence, we don’t know. We’re still trying to find out. But we still feel there was maybe another story than what we’re being told,” she said.
But law enforcement sources said she was fixated on the president.
“She definitely had an obsession with him,” one law-enforcement official had said of Miriam.
And Stamford cops were twice called to Carey’s home in December by her boyfriend, Eric Francis, who said she was delusional and irrational and putting their baby daughter, Erica, in danger.
The Brooklyn-bred Carey had been unraveling since at least April 2012, when she hit her head in a fall, friends said.