The Connecticut mom shot dead Thursday after leading cops on a high-speed car chase through Washington, DC, was fixated on President Obama and convinced he was stalking her, sources told The Post.
“She definitely had an obsession with him,” one law-enforcement official said of Miriam Carey, 34.
The dental hygienist had called herself the “prophet of Stamford” and claimed Obama had put the Connecticut city on lockdown and arranged for her to be electronically monitored so her life could be broadcast on TV.
Stamford cops were twice called to Carey’s home in December by her boyfriend, Eric Francis, who said she was delusion 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.
This summer, Carey was clearly disturbed during visits to her sister Valarie’s home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighbor told The Post.
“About three months ago, Miriam was taken away in an ambulance, crying and rambling that the world is going to end,” said Jamal Hinez, 25, who has lived on Valarie Carey’s block for 14 years.
“They wrapped her in something with straps on the gurney. EMS asked what was happening, and [Valarie] whispered in the [EMS] worker’s ear. Miriam was on the gurney kicking and screaming, ‘The world is going to end. We are all going to die. It is going to happen.’ ”
“They gave her the needle in her buttock, and she quieted down. She was crying,” Hinez recalled. “Valarie was on the phone complaining about not being able to cope anymore, [saying], ‘I can’t keep dealing with this hearing voices and stuff, this spacing out.’ ”
Miriam Carey’s mother, Idella, said her daughter suffered from post-partum depression after giving birth to Erica last August.
Carey was fatally shot multiple times near the Capitol by police after running her black Infiniti sedan over barricades outside the White House and leading federal agents and cops on a chase down Pennsylvania Avenue.
In a search of her Connecticut home afterward, authorities found medications used to treat schizophrenia and depression, CNN reported.
Carey also left a letter addressed to Francis at her apartment that appeared to contain white powder, CNN said.
Francis called cops on Carey Dec. 10, and she told officers the president had ordered Stamford locked down and Carey monitored for a television show.
She was taken away in handcuffs and remanded for a mental health evaluation, ABC reported.
On Dec. 21, Francis called police again and said Carey was “off her medication.” Sources said a state social worker declared her “100 percent back to normal” in January.
Stamford Police yesterday would not immediately release the official reports of those incidents. A source said the FBI has asked they not be made public.
Francis — who ran a heating and cooling company and recently lost his Hartford-area home to foreclosure — did not return calls.
He recently opened a restaurant in Hartford, but was not there yesterday.
Carey’s family went to Washington Friday to claim her body, friends said.
She had recently been spending much time with her sister in Brooklyn, neighbors said.
“This past winter, Miriam was outside without a coat, and her sister had to coax her to go inside and put one on,” Hinez said.
“Valarie was talking to her like she was a 3-year-old. Miriam’s hair was wild, and she looked timid. She seemed like she didn’t understand, like she couldn’t make the connection with putting a coat on.”
“Miriam sometimes would speak in half-sentences as if her mind would be wandering all over. She would start on one topic and end with another.”
Carey’s mom said she didn’t know why her daughter traveled to DC and said she thought she had been taking Erica to a doctor’s appointment in Stamford.