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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