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Three days after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howie (Howard) Liebengood died by suicide, and subsequent reporting and official rulings have linked additi...
Two responding officers have been formally ruled to have died “in the ” by federal or District authorities: Metropolitan Police Officer , whose death was first ruled a line‑of‑duty death by the and la...
Three separate, well‑reported cases after — notably and — provide the clearest public evidence that some post‑event police suicides were attributed to trauma from the Capitol response, with adjudicato...
Five law-enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack later died — one the day after the riot and four in the weeks and months that followed — but how those deaths are legally cla...
One day after the Capitol breach, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died; the D.C. medical examiner ultimately concluded he died of natural causes (strokes) while noting that “all that transp...
A small number of law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol died either on that day or in the weeks and months afterward from a mixture of causes: one o...
Multiple post–Jan. 6 law enforcement deaths have been linked to the trauma of that day, but the official forensic and administrative rulings are mixed: the D.C. medical examiner concluded Officer Bria...
Four law‑enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol later died by suicide: U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howard C. “Howie” Liebengood and three Metropolitan Polic...
Five law-enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack subsequently died; the official findings show one death ruled natural causes (two strokes) and the others ruled sui...
Four law-enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol died by suicide in the weeks and months after the riot, and one officer, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sickni...
One United States Capitol Police (USCP) officer who responded to the January 6, 2021 attack died by suicide in the immediate aftermath of the riot: Howard Liebengood, who died on January 9, 2021 (a US...
A cluster of deaths tied to law-enforcement personnel who responded to January 6, 2021 includes one immediate line-of-duty fatality attributed to medical causes and multiple subsequent suicides; repor...
Multiple law-enforcement deaths have been officially tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, but the nature and legal classification of those deaths vary: U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s death ...
Police officers were among the dead directly and indirectly tied to the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack: four people died on the day itself and multiple law-enforcement officers died in the days, weeks...