Capitol Ramming Suspect Seen Shopping for Knife Right Before Incident

The man who rammed into Capitol police and attempted to slice them with a knife, bought that weapon just hours before the fatal incident … suggesting he premeditated the whole attack.

TMZ has obtained shots of Noah Green in a D.C. kitchen appliance store 90 minutes before authorities say he drove his car into a barricade at the Capitol last week and proceeded to get shot and killed after getting out to attack officers with a knife.

Green was in District Cutlery — about a 10-minute drive from the Capitol — and he purchased the blade you see here. We’re told it’s a Kurosaki Shizuku Sujihiki 270mm SG2 knife, and it retails for about $300.

You can see the knife he purchased at the store looks identical to the one police recovered at the scene after Green was gunned down, and a Capitol Police officer was killed.

Eyewitnesses say Green was calm and collected during his purchase, and didn’t seem to raise any red flags to bystanders.