Former Trump Official Dead After Being Attacked in DC

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A week ago, former Trump administration official Mike Gill was a father and a husband.

Now, he is a sad statistic after dying Saturday from injuries that took place in a carjacking Monday during which he was shot while waiting to pick up his wife from her job on K Street, not far from the White House.

Carjackings in Washington almost doubled in 2023, hitting 958 after 484 carjackings were reported in 2022, according to Fox News.

Gill was chief operating officer for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during former President Donald Trump’s administration, according to WTTG-TV and was the senior vice president for Capital Markets at the Housing Policy Council at the time of his death.

“Wonderful and brilliant Mike Gill, a highly respected member of the Trump Administration, was ruthlessly and viciously shot in the head during a carjacking in Washington, D.C. He was a SPECIAL PERSON – His family and friends are devastated. The Federal Government must take over D.C. God bless Michael and his family!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Gill was shot in the head Monday by Artell Cunningham, 28, who began a string of shootings, carjackings and attempted carjackings by attacking Gill at about 5:45 p.m. on Monday. Less than 12 hours later, Cunningham’s spree would end when he was killed by New Carrollton, Maryland, police.

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