Breaking: Multiple gunshots fired near U.S. Capitol --Shootings happened a few blocks from where third day of hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was concluding
Police shoot, kill man near U.S. Capitol --Multiple gunshots fired 15 Jul 2009 Police shot a 35-year-old man near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in what authorities described as a routine traffic stop that turned deadly. The unidentified man was shot after brandishing a weapon, police said. He died shortly after the late afternoon melee, in which eyewitnesses said multiple gunshots were fired.