US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, who was injured while confronting rioters during the January 6 insurrection, suffered a stroke and died from natural causes, the Washington DC medical examiner s office ruled Monday, a finding that lessens the chances that anyone will be charged in his death. Investigators initially believed the officer was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, based on statements collected early in the investigation, according to two people familiar with the case. And they later thought the 42-year-old Sicknick may have ingested a chemical substance – possibly bear spray – that may have contributed to his death. But the determination of a natural cause of death means the medical examiner found that a medical condition alone caused his death – it was not brought on by an injury.
Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick in an undated photograph
WASHINGTON US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes the day after the Jan. 6 riots at the US Capitol, the chief medical examiner in Washington, DC, announced Monday.
Dr. Francisco Diaz, the medical examiner, determined that Sicknick, 42, had strokes caused by a blood clot before he died, according to an email from his office.
Two men have been charged with conspiring to assault Sicknick using a chemical spray, but they aren’t charged in connection with this death; in court filings and during recent hearings, prosecutors have noticeably shied away from bringing up the fact that Sicknick died. Diaz told the Washington Post, which first reported the office’s findings, that there was no evidence that Sicknick had an allergic reaction to chemical irritants or that he had internal or external injuries.
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The jury of six white people and six people who are Black or multiracial began deliberating after nearly a full day of closing arguments in which prosecutors argued that Chauvin squeezed the life out of Floyd last May in a way that even a child knew was wrong.
Who was Brian Sicknick and how did the Capitol police officer die?
Updated: Apr 19 2021, 21:41 ET
CAPITOL Officer Brian Sicknick was murdered after rioters stormed the Capitol building in a bid to halt Electoral College vote certification.
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Who was Brian D. Sicknick?
Brian D. Sicknick, 42, was a US Capitol police officer and military veteran.
He enlisted in the National Guard after graduating high school in 1997, deploying to Saudi Arabia and then Kyrgyzstan.
Sicknick joined Capitol Police in 2008 after serving in the New Jersey Air National Guard.
How did the Capitol Police officer die?
Officer Brian D. Sicknick was fatally hurt in a clash with MAGA rioters during the Capitol Hill protests on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
Murder case against ex-cop in Floyd s death goes to the jury
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â The murder case against former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury Monday in a city on edge against another round of unrest like the one that erupted last year over the harrowing video of Chauvin with his knee on the Black man s neck.
The jury of six white people and six people who are Black or multiracial began deliberating after nearly a full day of closing arguments in which prosecutors argued that Chauvin squeezed the life out of Floyd last May in a way that even a child knew was wrong.