At 2.42 p.m., journalist Taylor Hanson is walking behind Ashley Babbitt, an Air Force veteran from California, as she turns a corner and approaches the speaker's lobby, guarded by three police officers.
MPD officer Luke Foskett approaches a window and looks out upon the crowd on the western side of the Capitol building.
Moments later, members of the house seek shelter in the gallery while officers barricade entry into the chamber.
It is at this moment that the only firearm to be discharged inside the Capitol that day can be loudly heard. The story of that gunshot is quite possibly the most tragic story of that day.
The shot heard was a single round fired by Lieutenant Michael Byrd.
It strikes Ashley Babbitt in the neck and she falls back into the upper landing of the stairwell.
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