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At least 138–174 law enforcement officers were reported injured in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, with dozens suffering concussions, traumatic brain injuries, cracked ribs, spinal da...
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...
Officer Brian Sicknick died shortly after the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack and the District of Columbia medical examiner ruled his death — acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts caused by strokes —...
A handful of law‑enforcement officers who were on duty around the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack died in the days, weeks and months that followed; medical examiners and official reports have mostly r...
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...
Four law-enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol later died by suicide: Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers Jeffrey Smith, Gunther Hashida and K...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Five people who attended or responded to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol died in the immediate aftermath, with official determinations dividing those deaths between a police shooting, n...
Four law-enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol later died by suicide—Howard “Howie” Liebengood, Jeffrey Smith, Gunther Hashida and Kyle DeFreytag—and th...
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...
The official investigations into deaths of law-enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach reached two clear, separate findings: medical examiners determined that Capitol...