Man who rammed car into Capitol Police a former Alleghany High athlete

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Man who rammed car into Capitol Police a former Alleghany High athlete

Green died Friday from police gunfire after ramming his car into two officers along a barricade, killing one and injuring the other.

By Eddie Callahan

Published: Apr. 2, 2021 at 8:39 PM EDT | Updated: 10 hours ago

(WDBJ) - The man that police identified as the driver behind the wheel Friday of a car that hit two Capitol Police officers, leaving one dead and one injured, was a former member of the Alleghany High School football team.

According to the New York Times and other media outlets, Noah Green, 25 of Indiana, began playing in 2017 for Christopher Newport University in Newport News.

“Mr. Green was born in West Virginia, attended high school in Virginia, then enrolled in Glenville State College where he played football before transferring to Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va. He played defensive back on the Christopher Newport football team and graduated in 2019 with a degree in finance.”

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Man who grew up in Covington blamed in D.C. attack; he and Capitol Police officer die

Associated Press and The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot 9 hrs ago

WASHINGTON — A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a 25-year-old man who lived in Covington, Virginia, as a teenager rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife, according to Capitol Police. It was the second line-of-duty death this year for a department still struggling to heal from the Jan. 6 insurrection.

According to Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman, the driver, Noah Green, drove a car into a barricade and emerged from the vehicle with a knife before he began to run toward the two police officers. One officer died and another was injured in the incident. Green was shot and later died in the hospital, Pittman said during a news briefing

A Christopher Newport University spokesperson confirmed to the Virginian-Pilot in a news release that Green had played football at the school in 2017 and 2018. Green, according to CNU’s football roster, was born in Fairlea, West Virginia, and grew up in Covington, Virginia. Green graduated CNU in 2019.

He was a member of the football and track teams at Alleghany High School and was named the football team’s most valuable player in 2013. He later went to college at Glenville State University in Glenville, West Virginia, where he was a sprinter on the track and field team and a defensive back for the football team.

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1. What we know about Noah Green, the Indiana man suspected in the US Capitol attack

He got around. I guess you can say he was an Indiana man too.

What we know about Noah Green, the Indiana man suspected in the US Capitol attack

Staff reports
Published: 8:03 p.m. ET Apr. 2, 2021 | Updated: 8:17 a.m. ET Apr. 3, 2021

The suspect in the death of a Capitol Police officer has ties to Indiana, according to reports.

Noah Green, 25, has been identified by law enforcement as the man who drove the vehicle into two U.S. Capital police officers on Friday afternoon.

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Who is Noah Green?

Several law enforcement sources said Green has connections to Indiana and Virginia.

The Washington Post reported Friday evening that it had interviewed Green's brother, Brendan Green, who said Noah had indeed lived previously in Indianapolis but then had moved to Africa. More recently, Brendan Green told the Post, his brother had moved in with him in his Virginia apartment.

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Public Safety

Family and friends concerned Noah Green was unraveling before Capitol attack

By Emily Davies, Justin Jouvenal and Michael E. Miller
April 2, 2021 at 9:46 p.m. EDT

Brendan Green said the troubling signs his brother was unraveling built up until the night before authorities said Noah Green launched an attack outside the Capitol.

Brendan Green said his brother was violently ill Thursday evening in the Virginia apartment they shared, before he left and sent a forlorn text that was one of their final communications.

“?‘I’m sorry but I’m just going to go and live and be homeless,’?” Brendan Green said the text read. “Thank you for everything that you’ve done. I looked up to you when I was a kid. You inspired me a lot.”

Less than 24 hours later, Capitol Police said a man crashed his vehicle into two officers at a barricade outside the Capitol before getting out of the car and charging them with a knife. At least one officer opened fire, fatally wounding him. Several people familiar with the investigation identified the suspect as Noah Green.

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Clarence Williams, Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins, Matt Zapotosky, Aaron C. Davis and Peter Hermann contributed to this report.

Emily Davies
Emily Davies is a reporter working on the local desk in D.C. Follow https://twitter.com/ELaserDavies

Justin Jouvenal
Justin Jouvenal covers courts and policing in Fairfax County and across the nation. He joined The Post in 2009. Follow https://twitter.com/jjouvenal

Michael E. Miller
Michael E. Miller is a reporter on the local enterprise team. He joined The Washington Post in 2015 and has also reported from Afghanistan. Follow https://twitter.com/MikeMillerDC