Two people were killed and two critically injured after they were struck by lightning near the White House.
James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, of Janesville, Wisconsin, died of their injuries after the lightning strike in Lafayette Park, located directly outside the White House complex, the Metropolitan Police Department said Friday.
The two other people, a man and a woman, were in critical condition, the police department said. Their identities were not immediately released.
According to the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, at 6.53 p.m. Thursday, the department “received a report of a lightning strike at Lafayette park with multiple patients.”…