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U.S. Capitol Police
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the day after he defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, suffered strokes and died of natural causes, D.C.’s chief medical examiner ruled.
Sicknick, 42, collapsed hours after the riot and died Jan. 7, in what officials consider a line-of-duty death. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Federal authorities have been clear that Sicknick was assaulted with a powerful chemical spray in his face. They ve said Sicknick and other officers were overpowered and potentially briefly blinded by that spray while on the front lines.
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The driver got off the car wielding a knife and was gunned down by law enforcement.
One police officer was killed and another was seriously injured in Washington DC Friday after being rammed by a vehicle just after 1 pm local time.
The driver, who got off the car wielding a knife, was gunned down by law enforcement officers and eventually died at a hospital.
The police officer fallen in the line of duty was identified as William Billy Evans, an 18-year veteran who was a member of the department s first responders unit. It was the second such casualty this year after the Jan. 6 insurrection.