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Participant in the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
Two different tallies circulate: , and others — including several law enforcement officers who died in the days, weeks or months afterward — bring a broader count often reported as connected to the ev...
Five deaths are commonly cited in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol when counting deaths that occurred on or immediately after the violence on the Capitol grounds: four c...
The deaths tied to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack include multiple causes: a rioter shot by a Capitol police officer, at least one drug overdose, natural cardiovascular deaths among rioters, and ...
Benjamin (Ben) Phillips, 50, who died on January 6, 2021 near the U.S. Capitol during the riot, was initially reported by fellow protesters and police as having suffered a “medical emergency” or strok...
Different outlets and government documents count Jan. 6 deaths in divergent ways because they use different definitions — some count only deaths that occurred on January 6, some include later deaths o...
Media errors about who died and how on January 6th—most notably early reports that Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a struck fire extinguisher and confusion over other deaths like Ashli Babbitt an...
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...
Different outlets reported for deaths tied to January 6, 2021, producing a mix of immediate casualty counts, later medical rulings, and evolving accounts of officer suicides and line-of-duty determina...