10 Aug 2023 8:47 am
WASHINGTON — As a pro-Trump protest turned into a violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, four people in the crowd died.
Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as rioters tried to breach the House chamber.
In the days and weeks after the riot, five police officers who had served at the Capitol on Jan. 6 died.
= Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police, who was attacked by the mob, died on Jan. 7.
= Officer Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department killed himself after the attack.
= Officer Howard S. Liebengood of the Capitol Police also died by suicide four days afterward.
The Capitol Police had previously said that Officer Sicknick died from injuries sustained “while physically engaging with protesters.” The Washington medical examiner later ruled that he had died of natural causes: multiple strokes that occurred hours after Officer Sicknick’s confrontation with the mob. The medical examiner added, however, that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”
Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as rioters tried to breach the House chamber.
In the days and weeks after the riot, five police officers who had served at the Capitol on Jan. 6 died.
= Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police, who was attacked by the mob, died on Jan. 7.
= Officer Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department killed himself after the attack.
= Officer Howard S. Liebengood of the Capitol Police also died by suicide four days afterward.
The Capitol Police had previously said that Officer Sicknick died from injuries sustained “while physically engaging with protesters.” The Washington medical examiner later ruled that he had died of natural causes: multiple strokes that occurred hours after Officer Sicknick’s confrontation with the mob. The medical examiner added, however, that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”