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Howard Charles Liebengood, a United States Capitol Police officer, died by suicide on January 9, 2021, three days after he participated in the law enforcement response to the Capitol attack. [1] He was the first of what were reported as two police suicides in the immediate aftermath of the attack, though Metropolitan Police (MPD) officer ...
Smith, 35, shot himself in the head on the George Washington Memorial Parkway on January 15, 2021, the day he was supposed to return to duty. [6] [2] [7] Smith's was the second of two police suicides in the immediate aftermath of the storming of the Capitol, the other being that of the U.S. Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood. [6]
On August 5, 2021, Sicknick, along with Capitol Police officers Howard Liebengood and Billy Evans, and Metropolitan Police officer Jeffrey L. Smith, was posthumously honored in a signing ceremony for a bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to Capitol Police and other January 6 responders. His name is noted in the text of the bill, and Biden ...
Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, himself a Trump voter, died of a stroke one day after the Capitol attack. Two police officers died by suicide within days of the violence.
Bodycam footage shows what Officer Jeffrey Smith experienced at the Capitol on what his widow described as "the worst day of his life." A Police Officer Died By Suicide After Jan. 6. Here's What ...
Over 100 D.C. and Capitol police officers were injured defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, and four have died by suicide since then. Washington Police Chief Robert J. Contee III told a House ...
His son, Howard Liebengood, was a US Capitol Police officer who participated in the law enforcement response during the January 6 United States Capitol attack in 2021. [4] He joined Capitol Police in April 2005. His death by suicide at age 51, occurred on January 9, 2021, three days after the Capitol attack. [4] [5] [6]
MPD Officer Jeffery Smith took his life “in the aftermath of that battle,” Acting Chief of Police Robert Contee III said during a closed-door session of the House Appropriations Committee.