Miriam Carey’s sisters, Valarie, left, and Amy, Right, speak to the media outside a family home in Bedford-Stuyvesent, Brooklyn after arriving back from Washington DC to identify her body.(Photo by Michael Graae/Getty Images)

The sisters of the woman who led police on a high speed chase from the White House to near the Capitol building last week and was shot to death say “she was not delusional.”

Miriam Carey’s sisters, Amy Carey Jones and Valarie Carey, told Matt Lauer on the Today show that their sister was afraid for her life when she fled.

“If you hear gun shots, it’s like, ‘I’m afraid. I don’t want to be here. I want to get out of here. I have a baby in a car,’” Valarie Carey said. “My sister was fleeing. She was trying to figure out how to get out of there.”

Amy Carey Jones said they haven’t been told “exactly what happened” and haven’t been properly notified. Valarie Carey said it was “horrifying” to get calls from reporters, as opposed to authorities, telling her to turn on the TV. According to authorities, Miriam Carey attempted to ram through the bollards near the White House then fled police. She was shot fatally shot by police near the Capitol, with her one-year-old daughter in the backseat.

When asked about Miriam Carey’s mental health, the sisters confirmed that she was being treated for post-partum depression. But they denied that she had ever spoken about fearing President Obama was stalking her, as some media outlets have claimed.

“She never talked badly about President Obama,” Amy Carey Jones said. “She was not walking around delusional, which is what we want the public to understand. She was not delusional.”

Many people have questioned whether the amount of force used by police was warranted.

“I feel that things could have been handled a lot differently,” Amy Carey Jones said. “And maybe there was some bit overreaction or negligence, we don’t know. We still feel that there was maybe another story than what we’re being told.”

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