What are the names of the 4 people who died during January 6th riot at the capitol
Executive summary
Contemporary reporting and public records show that four people died on January 6, 2021, at or immediately surrounding the U.S. Capitol: one person was shot by a Capitol Police officer, two died of heart-related conditions, and one died of an amphetamine intoxication; among those named in the provided sources are Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt and Kevin Greeson, while the sources supplied here describe the others by cause without naming all individuals [1] [2] [3]. This account focuses narrowly on those deaths “that day” and does not resolve broader disputes about later deaths, officer suicides, or whether some later fatalities were caused by the riot [4] [5].
1. The headline facts: four deaths “that day” and varying tallies after
Multiple mainstream summaries record four people dying on January 6 itself and up to eight deaths when including subsequent fatalities tied to the event’s aftermath; within 36 hours some accounts reported five deaths while later reviews counted additional law-enforcement deaths in the weeks and months after the attack [1] [6] [5]. The sources provided draw a clear distinction between immediate fatalities during the breach of the Capitol and later deaths of officers and others whose families or officials have sometimes linked those deaths to the events of January 6 [4] [2].
2. Who the reporting names: Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt and Kevin Greeson
Among the people explicitly named in the supplied sources, Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt — a 35‑year‑old Air Force veteran who was shot by a Capitol Police officer while attempting to enter a barricaded area near the House chamber — is consistently identified [2] [7], and Kevin Greeson is cited in multiple summaries as having suffered a fatal heart attack on the Capitol grounds shortly before the building was breached [2]. Those two names appear repeatedly in mainstream timelines and encyclopedic entries referenced here [2] [3].
3. The other two immediate deaths are described by cause in these sources
The remaining two fatalities on January 6 are described in the provided material by their medical causes rather than by name: one is listed as having died of an amphetamine intoxication and another as having died of a heart condition, giving the day’s immediate death toll as one shooting fatality, two heart‑related deaths, and one drug‑related death [3] [1]. The same sources also document continued uncertainty and revision over how later deaths — including those of several law‑enforcement officers who died days to months after the riot — are attributed to the events of that day [4] [5].
4. Disputes, later deaths, and the limits of available excerpts
Public accounting of January 6 fatalities has been contested: some outlets expanded the count to include officers who died later and families who link suicides and post‑riot health crises to the events, while medical examiners in at least one high‑profile case (Officer Brian Sicknick) concluded natural causes in their reports, prompting disagreements about attribution [4] [5]. The excerpts provided for this analysis name Babbitt and Greeson and describe the causes for the other immediate deaths, but they do not jointly present all four proper names in a single cited list in the supplied snippets, which constrains definitive naming solely from these sources [2] [3].
5. Bottom line and reporting caveat
Based strictly on the materials supplied here, the four people who died on January 6, 2021, are accounted for as: Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt (shot by a Capitol Police officer) and Kevin Greeson (heart attack), plus two others described in these excerpts as dying that day from heart‑related causes and amphetamine intoxication; the provided sources identify some names explicitly and describe others by medical cause without listing all names together in the supplied snippets [2] [3] [1]. Wider public records and additional reporting do name the other two individuals (commonly identified elsewhere as Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Phillips), but those specific name citations are not contained in the particular excerpts furnished for this analysis, and therefore cannot be cited here without exceeding the constraints of the provided source material.