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Weston was known to the United States Secret Service before the incident as a person who had threatened the President of the United States. [7] The shooting led to the creation of the United States Capitol Police Memorial Fund, a nonprofit organization managed by the Capitol Police Board which provides funds for the families of Chestnut and ...
On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot during the attack on the United States Capitol. [1] [2] [3] She was part of a crowd of supporters of then outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump who stormed the United States Capitol building seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
At 2:44 p.m., [103] as lawmakers were being evacuated by Capitol Police, Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt, a 35-year-old unarmed Air Force veteran, attempted to climb through a shattered window in a barricaded door and was shot in the neck/shoulder by Capitol Police lieutenant Michael Byrd (who was standing on the other side), dying from the wound.
A California man with a history of political violence has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for attacking police with flagpoles and other makeshift weapons during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the ...
The U.S. Capitol Police officer who fatally shot pro-Trump protester Ashli Babbitt at the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has been exonerated following an internal investigation, NBC News reported ...
July 24, 1998: United States Capitol shooting: Russell Eugene Weston, Jr., a paranoid schizophrenic with a strong distrust of the Federal Government, opened fire at one of the U.S. Capitol's checkpoints and killed two Capitol police officers, one of whom had wounded Weston. Weston was not charged because of his mental condition and was sent to ...
A California man with a history of political violence was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison for repeatedly attacking police with flagpoles and other makeshift weapons during the Jan. 6 ...
When questioned by Capitol Police officer Jacob Chestnut, he killed the officer with a shot to his head. Officer Douglas McMillan fired at Weston, who then wounded McMillan. A tourist was also wounded. Weston then ran into an office used by Congressman Tom DeLay, and fatally shot Capitol Police detective John Gibson, assigned