NC man pleads not guilty to charges stemming from Jan. 6 riots at DC Capitol building
The former Marine allegedly shoved police and heaved a battering ram and bike rack to breach the Capitol Building in Washington DC.
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The former Marine allegedly shoved police and heaved a battering ram and bike rack to breach the Capitol Building in Washington DC.
“I roughhoused a little bit, but I didn’t punch them, none of that,” he said.
Former Marine Lee Stutts said he traveled from his home on Lake Norman to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, for two reasons: “I went up there to support our country and to whup somebody’s ass from antifa,” the 46-year-old Terrell man told The Charlotte Observer in an exclusive interview on Friday.
A man from the Charlotte suburb of Mint Hill is accused of traveling to Washington D.C. and breaking into the U.S. Capitol during a riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Marine veteran Lee Stutts lives at the tip of a peaceful Lake Norman peninsula, but on Jan. 6, 2021, he readied for battle, prosecutors say.