Ashlee Babbit aside, is it alleged that any of the three other deaths occured after receiving a beating. If so, who gave the beating.

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Executive summary

Multiple reputable accounts of the January 6 attack explicitly report that, aside from Ashli Babbitt’s fatal shooting, at least one law‑enforcement officer was alleged to have been beaten during the riot and died in the aftermath; contemporary summaries identify that officer as a Capitol Police officer who collapsed the next day after having been assaulted [1] [2]. The other three immediate deaths listed in many timelines are recorded as medical causes (heart conditions, drug intoxication) with no allegation in these sources that they resulted from beatings [3] [4].

1. How sources frame the post‑Jan. 6 fatalities

Major summaries and investigations record five deaths “during or in the aftermath” of the attack and recount different circumstances: one rioter (Ashli Babbitt) was shot by a Capitol Police officer inside the building, one person died of an amphetamine intoxication, two others are described as dying of heart conditions or natural causes on or shortly after January 6, and at least one police officer died after being assaulted during the riot [1] [3] [4]. Encyclopedic and investigative outlets—Wikipedia, Britannica, the Department of Homeland Security report archive, and watchdog groups—consistently note that many officers were seriously injured by the mob, and several officers later died or were described as dying in connection to those injuries [1] [5] [4] [2].

2. Which death is alleged to have followed a beating, and who allegedly beat the victim

The reporting collected here identifies a Capitol Police officer as having been beaten by rioters and subsequently dying in the attack’s aftermath; sources refer to that officer being assaulted by the crowd on January 6 and collapsing the next day [1] [2]. American Oversight’s summary and multiple encyclopedic timelines explicitly state that one Capitol Police officer was “beaten by rioters” and included that death in the count linked to the siege [2] [1]. These accounts attribute the assault to the mob of rioters who stormed and overwhelmed police lines that day—descriptions across sources document rioters using pipes, poles, stun guns, chemical irritants and trampling officers [5] [6].

3. The other immediate deaths: no beaten‑to‑death allegation in these sources

The other deaths cited in immediate timelines are reported as medical—two individuals who died of heart conditions or natural causes and one who died of an amphetamine overdose—and the sources in this packet do not allege those deaths resulted from having been beaten [3] [4]. Reference pieces and official summaries list those deaths separately from the fatal shooting and from the officer’s post‑assault death; Britannica and timeline compilations identify heart conditions and drug intoxication as the causes for the non‑officer deaths recorded the same day [3] [4]. The materials here therefore do not support a claim that any of those three non‑Babbitt civilian deaths were alleged to have followed beatings by rioters.

4. Why accounts differ and the limits of this packet of sources

Narrative divergence reflects evolving investigations, political framing and how outlets aggregate cause‑of‑death determinations: some summaries emphasize that an officer “died after being assaulted,” while other reporting and later official probes have parsed medical causation more cautiously [1] [2]. This collection of sources documents the allegation that a Capitol Police officer was beaten and later died, and it documents the brutal assaults on many officers that day [6] [5], but it does not include every postmortem finding, inquest conclusion or the full law‑enforcement medical record needed to trace precise causal chains for each death. Where forensic or coroner determinations differ from early press accounts, those later specifics are not present in the provided sources; therefore the clear, supportable statement from this packet is: apart from Ashli Babbitt’s shooting, reporting here alleges one police officer was beaten by rioters and died in the aftermath, while the three other immediate deaths cited are reported as medical (heart/drug) with no beating alleged in these documents [1] [3] [2].

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