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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects to the late U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick at 10 p.m. Tuesday. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool))
Officer Brick Sicknick graduated from the East Brunswick Middlesex County vo-tech school in 1997. (Released by Capitol Police)
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff pay their respects. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
New Jersey Congressman Tom Malinowski (D), center, at Sicknick s urn. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
Congressman Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, pays his respects Wednesday morning. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
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Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, died after sustaining injuries in the line of duty at the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Capitol Police
Updated 3 p.m. ET
A U.S. Capitol Police officer who was injured during the siege on the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists has died, bringing the total number of fatalities from the chaos that gripped Washington on Wednesday to five.
Brian Sicknick was a 42-year-old military veteran who had served in the Capitol Police for 12 years, Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said in a statement, adding that Sicknick was one of his constituents.
11 Jan 2021
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is asking military leaders to allow U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Sicknick, 42, who served in the National Guard and had worked for the Capitol Police since 2008, died a day after he interacted with rioters who stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.
“Today, I spoke with Army Secretary [Ryan] McCarthy, CJCS Gen. [Mark] Milley, and Air Force Chief of Staff General CQ Brown to ask that U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, a veteran, be given posthumous special honors and burial at Arlington National Cemetery,” Slotkin posted on Twitter.
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Slain U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick was a 1997 graduate of Middlesex County Vocational Technical High School in East Brunswick, according to a news report.
Mr. Sicknick was the fifth person to die as a consequence of the mob riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th.
According to CNN:
Prosecutors in the US Attorney’s office plan to open a federal murder investigation into the death of Mr. Sicknick, the US Capitol Police officer who died Thursday night, a law enforcement official tells CNN.
Mr. Sicknick was injured Wednesday when a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol. He died at approximately 9:30 p.m. ET Thursday “due to injuries sustained while on-duty,” Capitol Police officials said in a statement. The death is being investigated by the DC Metropolitan Police Department’s homicide branch, the US Capitol Police and their federal partners.
SOUTH RIVER, NJ Congresswoman U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who represents Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, has contacted senior military leaders to request that U.S. Capitol Officer Brian.