The cause of the death of Capitol officer Brian Sicknick remained under investigation on Wednesday, even when an official released the reasons for the deaths of four other people who died as a direct January 6 result in the Capitol through supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Capitol Police said Sicknick was injured “while physically interacting with protesters” during the riot.
The violence began after then-President Trump and his prominent supporters suggested attending an open-air rally at the White House to help them fight confirmation of then-President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory through a joint Congressional consultation.
Sicknick died a day after the riot, in which many Trump supporters ransacked the halls of Congress and clashed with the police.
Two men, Julian Elie Khater of State College, Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios of Morgantown, West Virginia, were arrested in March for assaulting Sicknick and two other law enforcement officers with a chemical in a bear spray.
But neither of us is accused of killing Sicknick.
One of the four Trump supporters who died in the insurrection, Ashli Babbitt, was already known on the day of the insurrection for being shot through a policeman guarding the House room while Babbitt and others walked into the room.
Babbitt, 35, was shot in the left shoulder, according to Dr. Francisco Díaz, a leading medical examiner in Washington, D. C. , who said Wednesday that his death was a homicide.
No one has been accused of shooting at Babbitt, an Air Force veteran who recently ran a group source company near San Diego.
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Another Trump supporter, Roseanne Boyland of Kennesaw, Georgia, died in a turn of fate of “acute amphetamine poisoning,” Diaz said Wednesday.
Boyland, 34, was known in the past for drug abuse, but her circle of relatives said she had been sober for several years to fall under the influence of the unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory, which fervently adheres to Trump.
Justin Winchell, a boyland friend who was with her at the riot, told a CBS associate in Atlanta in January that she was trampled among a massive crowd when Trump supporters opposed the police guarding the Capitol.
Boyland’s brother-in-law, Justin Cave, told the Atlanta media, “I never tried to be a political person, but personally I think the president’s words provoked an insurrection that killed four of his biggest enthusiasts last night. Amendment 25 at this time. “
The 25th Amendment vice president and most cabinet members to eliminate a president’s powers if the president is declared unfit.
The deaths of Trump’s other two supporters in the insurrection, Kevin Greeson, 55, and Benjamin Phillips, 50, were considered natural, either of which was the result of hypertensive atherosclerous cardiovascular disease, Diaz said.
Greeson, a resident of Athens, Alabama, who in the past supported President Barack Obama, appears to have suffered an attack in the center and was noticed by hounds undergoing chest compressions by paramedics.
The New York Times reported that Greeson, who had worked in a Goodyear factory, was on the phone with his wife on the west side of the Capitol complex when he collapsed on a side sidewalk.
The Alabama Political Reporter noted that Greeson is active on Talk, the conservative-favored social media platform, where he commented on December 29 about the option that President Donald Trump is calling on militias to intercede and converge in Washington, D. C. :
“I’mArray . . . Call me, I have weapons and ammunition!” he wrote Greeson, who in Article of Talk posted a photo of him holding two attack rifles, with two pistols nailed to his belt.
Philips, a computer programmer living in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, arranged a bus with other Trump supporters to Washington on January 6 to hear Trump speak.
Philips told the Philadelphia Inquirer before he was looking to see what Trump would do.
“Looks like he called us there for a reason, I think something big is about to happen that no one has talked about yet,” he told the paper. “I think they gave him an ace up his sleeve. “
While driving a pickup truck to Washington, Philips told The Inquirer, “To be honest, this turns out to be the first day of the rest of our lives. “
“They call Zero this year because anything’s going to happen. “
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