A funeral in New York was held for Miriam Carey, the Connecticut woman who died after trying to drive through White House gates, one day after local pastors organized an interfaith vigil for the mentally ill woman, POLITICO reported.
The service for Carey, 34, will be held in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning at Grace Funeral Chapel.
The former dental hygienist is survived by her one-year-old daughter, Erica, who was in the back seat of her car as she led police on a chase through the streets of Capitol Hill.
She was diagnosed with postpartum depression and psychosis. Authorities say she believed President Barack Obama was monitoring her, resulting in her actions.
On Monday, pastors and parishioners gathered in Washington to hold an interfaith vigil for Carey. They prayed for her daughter, who is now in the custody of her father, and police officers that responded to the incident.
Rev. Anthony J. Motley of the Cathedral of Christ Baptist Church reflected of Carey's troubles and mentioned he struggled with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after serving in the military.
"What if I had driven where I shouldn't have driven and did something I shouldn't have done because I was suffering from mental deprivation," he asked the crowd. "What if that had been me?"
He acknowledged he had no relationship with Carey's family but said he felt called to organize a vigil since it happened in D.C.
"And we pray that the investigation will bear out whether or not the officers used proper judgement or excessive force," Motley said.
"We have people who sometimes might lose their way, sometimes might make the wrong decision, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're doing anything that would require deadly force."
Carey's sisters have been active in defending their unarmed and mentally ill sister, who they claim did not deserve to get shot and die.
