Mike Gill DEAD five days after being shot by carjacker: Former Trump administration official was picking up lawyer wife from work in DC
- Gill, a married father of three, was shot when the carjacker jumped into his car
- He staggered out of the car and collapsed, and his wife ran over as he lay bleeding
- Artell Cunningham shot and killed by police hours later after many other car crashes
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Former Trump Administration official Mike Gill has died after being shot in front of his wife during a carjacking in Washington DC.
Gill, a married father of three, was shot by Artell Cunningham on K Street NW around 5:45 p.m. last Monday and died in hospital Saturday.
He was picking up his wife, an education lawyer, when he was shot inside the car by the attacker. He stumbled outside the vehicle and collapsed.
Former Trump administration official Mike Gill has died after being shot during a carjacking in Washington DC
Gill, seen here with his wife and three children in a photo from just two weeks earlier
CCTV footage of 28-year-old Artell Cunningham, who was gunned down hours later by two New Carrollton police officers on the northeastern edge of DC’s Maryland suburbs
Gill’s wife rushed to him and held his hand as he lay bleeding on the ground with one foot still inside the car, his right hand twitching.
He served as executive director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during Donald Trump‘s time i White House.
Cunningham, 28, was gunned down hours later by two New Carrollton police officers on the northeastern edge of DC’s Maryland suburbs.
Police cornered him around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, following his crime spree that also killed Alberto Vasquez Jr, 35, in a separate D.C. carjacking 90 minutes after Gill was shot.
Gill was the first victim of Cunningham’s campaign of terror, and just minutes later at At 7:05 p.m., he attempted to carjack another motorist on 3rd Street NE, but was unsuccessful.
Alberto Vasquez Jr, 35, (pictured) was killed in a separate DC carjacking by the same gunman 90 minutes after Gill was shot
The suspect made a third unsuccessful attempt to carjack a vehicle on Third Street NE before taking the car to a person he shot, in this case fatally
So at At 7:17 p.m., he shot Vasquez at 3rd Street and N Street and stole his car, which was later found in Takoma Park.
Cunningham committed several carjackings around DC and its suburbs, including hitting a taxi driver in the head with his gun and stealing his car in University Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, at 23.23.
So around At 2:30 a.m. he shot the windshield of a Maryland State Police trooper’s car, and at about 3 a.m. He sprayed the door of a DC police officer’s car with bullets as he drove by.
New Carrollton Police tracked the stolen car near a laundromat on Annapolis Road, where he was shot and later died at the hospital.
More on the way.