There has yet to be an official statement about the incident that actually gets the facts straight, but according to this article she had managed to get out of the car before she was shot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/us/gunfire-reported-outside-the-capitol.html?_r=2&;
And there are pictures of police gathered around her as she lay on the ground outside the vehicle.
“A woman with a young child was shot to death after turning her vehicle into a weapon on Thursday afternoon, ramming her way through barriers outside the White House...”
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This NY Slimes article started off with its very first sentence being a lie. In the video it appeared she came right up to the barrier, stopped and then made a run to “escape”. She sure as hell didn’t “ram her way through barriers”. I didn’t see any visible damage to the front of her vehicle. This mainstream media fairy tale keeps evolving and growing. WTF, over.