This article contains references to suicide.
The District of Columbia s police department on Monday said two more police officers who responded to the 6 January riot at the US Capitol have died by suicide, bringing to four the number of known suicides by officers who guarded the building that day.
Metropolitan Police Officer Gunther Hashida was found dead in his home Thursday, department spokesman Hugh Carew said in a statement.
Mr Hashida joined the District of Columbia s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in May 2003.
Another MPD officer who responded to the Capitol on 6 January, Kyle DeFreytag, was found dead on 10 July, Mr Carew said. Mr DeFreytag’s cause of death was also suicide, Mr Carew said.
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