A White House Aide Allegedly Fired Her Cop Boyfriend's Gun at Him in a Fit of Rage

On Friday, at approximately 2:30 PM, White House aide Barvetta Singletary sent a text to her boyfriend asking him to come over to her place in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, for sex. He came over, but not long after they did their thing, she confronted him about another woman she suspected he was dating.

That's when the situation began to spiral out of control.

According to police charging documents, Singletary and her boyfriend, Officer Reginald Cleveland of the US Capitol Police Department, went outside to his Cadillac Escalade. There, she retrieved his two phones—along with his service weapon.

Singletary ran back into the house with the .40 caliber Glock 23, and Cleveland gave chase. He pleaded for the weapon while she demanded the passwords to access his phones and unholstered the gun, pointing it at him. "You taught me how to use this. Don't think I won't use it," she said, according to the charging documents. She then "racked" the gun, discharging an unused bullet, perhaps to demonstrate her ability to operate the weapon.

Singletary plopped down at the kitchen table while Cleveland sat on a couch about ten feet away. She again asked for the passwords, adding, "Your phone is more important than me holding this gun on you?" She allegedly took aim and popped off one shot, which did not strike Cleveland. He quickly gathered some of his belongings and took off before calling 9-1-1, and Singletary was reportedly seen trying to wipe her prints off the Glock around the time Prince George's County Police arrived at the scene.

Prior to this run-in with the law, Singletary graduated from Hemingway High School, in South Carolina, and Howard University. She started her career as an intern for powerful Democratic Congressman James E. Clyburn in 2000, according to her hometown paper, and eventually served as his policy director, playing an integral role in drafting the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. In Clyburn's 2015 book, he wrote that Singletary had "the confidence and respect of most of the other Capitol Hill staffers."

Now Singletary is on unpaid leave and has had her White House security privileges revoked, according to a Washington, DC, NBC affiliate. She's also been charged with first- and second-degree assault, as well as reckless endangerment, and was released Monday after posting $75,000 bail.

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Barvetta Singletary Charging Documents