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Family Friends Of Capitol Officer React To Death
He enlisted in the National Guard six months after graduating high school in 1997, serving in Saudi Arabia and then Kyrgyzstan during the earliest months of the Iraq War.
People in the small New Jersey hometown of Brian Sicknick are expressing their condolences following after the Capitol Police officer was killed Wednesday when a mob attacked the building.Sicknick grew up in South River, New Jersey and attended a nearby technical college. School administrators say his record shows Sicknick expressed an interest in joining law enforcement from an early age.
He enlisted in the National Guard six months after graduating high school in 1997, serving in Saudi Arabia and then Kyrgyzstan during the earliest months of the Iraq War. Joining the Guard was his means to joining law enforcement, his family said. His brother told me, Brian did his job, said John Krenzel, the mayor of Sicknick s hometown of South River, New