Siobhan Hughes
Siobhan Hughes
Dow Jones Newswire
January 10, 2011
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The wife of a senior White House aide was found dead in a burning car in the garage behind her Capitol Hill home on Monday morning, and a joint investigation by the Washington fire and police departments is under way.
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Fire officials didn’t identify Ashley Turton, 37, by name as the victim. But a Progress Energy Inc. (PGN) spokesman confirmed Monday that Turton, a lobbyist for the company, was the victim. She was married to Daniel Turton, a White House liaison to Congress. A White House spokesman declined to comment.
Firefighters were dispatched to the scene shortly before 5 a.m. after neighbors called to report that a garage was on fire, according to Pete Piringer, a District of Columbia fire department spokesman. The driver crashed a 2008 BMW X-5 into the interior of the garage at about 4:45 a.m., the Washington, DC, police said in a statement. A fire started and quickly engulfed the entire garage as well as the car, the police said.
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The news was the latest to shake Capitol Hill and the White House, which is still reeling from the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D, Ariz.) at an Arizona “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson over the weekend. White House staffers returned to their desks after the moment of silence for the victims in Arizona to find an email with the news of the Turton death.
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