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Smith, 35, shot himself in the head on the George Washington Memorial Parkway on January 15, 2021, the day he was supposed to return to duty. [6] [2] [7] Smith's was the second of two police suicides in the immediate aftermath of the storming of the Capitol, the other being that of the U.S. Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood. [6]
[11] [12] On May 14, 2021, the US Capitol Police named their new counseling center after Liebengood. [13] In November of 2022, the United States Department of Justice classified Liebengood's suicide as a line-of-duty death, enabling his family to receive benefits through the Public Safety Officers' Benefit Program. This was the first ...
Two police officers who responded to the attack died by suicide in the following days: [90] one Capitol Police officer, Officer Howard Liebengood, three days after the attack, [91] [92] and a D.C. Metro Police officer, Officer Jeffrey Smith, who had been injured in the attack, afterward.
Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, was assigned to the Senate Division of the Capitol Police Department. He died by suicide days after the Capitol attack.
A longtime officer with U.S. Capitol Police died Saturday while off duty in what’s being described as an apparent suicide. The officer, Howard Liebengood, was 51. Capitol Police did not reveal a ...
MPD Officer Jeffery Smith took his life “in the aftermath of that battle,” Acting Chief of Police Robert Contee III said during a closed-door session of the House Appropriations Committee.
On August 5, 2021, Sicknick, along with Capitol Police officers Howard Liebengood and Billy Evans, and Metropolitan Police officer Jeffrey L. Smith, was posthumously honored in a signing ceremony for a bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to Capitol Police and other January 6 responders. His name is noted in the text of the bill, and Biden ...
The Justice Department (DOJ) has ruled the suicide of a police officer in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol, a death in the line of duty. Erin Smith, the widow of former ...