Which individuals died on January 6 and what were the official causes of death according to medical examiners?

1. Ashli Babbitt — shot inside the Capitol (homicide ruling)

Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt, a 35‑year‑old Air Force veteran who attempted to climb through a shattered door toward the House chamber, was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer; local officials and multiple news outlets report the shooting as the single on‑scene fatal shooting during the breach and the death has been widely characterized as a law‑enforcement shooting of a rioter ^{[2] [5] [1]}.

2. One rioter ruled to have died of acute amphetamine intoxication

The D.C. medical examiner’s public summaries and contemporaneous timelines list a death from an amphetamine intoxication among the people who died that day; reporting has identified that one of the rioters who collapsed during the events was found by the medical examiner to have an amphetamine‑related cause of death ^{[1] [2]}.

3. Two civilians ruled natural deaths from cardiovascular disease

Two attendees who died amid the chaos were later ruled by the D.C. medical examiner to have died of natural cardiovascular causes—medical reports specifically cite coronary heart disease and hypertensive heart disease for those fatalities—contradicting early eyewitness speculation that crowd crush or physical assault had caused those particular deaths ^{[3] [1]}.

4. Officer Brian Sicknick — collapse and a later medical‑examiner determination described as natural causes

A Capitol Police officer who collapsed after confronting rioters and was widely reported to have been assaulted died the next day; early accounts linked his collapse to the riot, and later official summaries say his death was among the post‑event fatalities identified as natural causes (a stroke was reported in some official summaries), a point that has been contentious in public debate and reporting ^{[4] [3]}.

5. Counting beyond January 6: officers who died later and disputes over the total

Beyond deaths on January 6 and the immediately ensuing 36‑hour window, several law‑enforcement officers who responded later died by suicide or months afterwards and have been included by some advocates and media outlets in expanded tallies of "Jan. 6 deaths"; the number of deaths attributed to the riot therefore varies by source—from four immediate on‑scene deaths in some official briefings to five within 36 hours and higher totals (including later officer suicides) in other counts—prompting disputes about inclusion and the proper historical tally ^{[4] [6] [7]}.

6. Why sources differ and where medical‑examiner authority ends

Government and media summaries differ because they apply different temporal and causal criteria: the D.C. medical examiner reports explicit causes and manners of death for individuals (homicide, natural, intoxication), while advocacy groups and some outlets include subsequent suicides or deaths they argue were caused by Jan. 6 trauma; official medical determinations are limited to cause/manner for each body and do not by themselves assign legal responsibility for broader classifications such as "died as a result of the riot"—that distinction fuels the varying totals and political arguments ^{[2] [3] [6]}.

7. Bottom line: names, causes, and contested totals

Contemporary, sourced reporting and the D.C. medical examiner make clear that Ashli Babbitt was killed by a gunshot, one rioter’s death was ruled amphetamine intoxication, two attendees were pronounced natural deaths from coronary/hypertensive heart disease, and at least one officer who collapsed was later reported as having died of a natural cause; beyond these determinations, inclusion of later officer suicides and other post‑event fatalities produces higher, disputed totals depending on whether the compiler links those deaths causally to the events of January 6 ^{[2] [1] [3] [4] [6]}.