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42 Year Old Capitol Officer Had Stroke, Died Day After Insurrection, Examiner Finds ‘natural cause’, Complicates Case. Unclear Why Public Not Told.

Towleroad April 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

 
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By Brad Heath and Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington, D.C.’s chief medical examiner on Monday ruled that a Capitol Police officer died of natural causes following multiple strokes after the attack on the Capitol, a finding that will make it harder for prosecutors to charge anyone with his murder.

The medical examiner’s office said on Monday that 42-year-old officer Brian Sicknick died of multiple strokes the day after he was sprayed with a chemical outside the U.S. Capitol while it was under siege.

Sicknick was one of hundreds of Capitol Police officers who battled supporters of former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, when they stormed the building in an attempt to stop Congress from formally certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory.

Sicknick was sprayed by rioters with a chemical substance around 2:20 p.m. on Jan. 6, and collapsed later that evening around 10 p.m. He died the following day at a local hospital.

Two men – George Tanios and Julian Khater – are facing charges they assaulted three police officers, including Sicknick, by spraying them with a chemical irritant.

The city said it describes the manner of death as “natural” in cases in which a disease alone causes death. If death is “hastened by an injury,” then the manner of death is not deemed natural, it said.

The findings by the medical examiner mean it will be hard for federal prosecutors to bring homicide charges in connection with Sicknick’s death.

The Washington Post first reported the medical examiner’s ruling.

Citing an interview with medical examiner Francisco Diaz, the newspaper said the autopsy found no evidence that Sicknick suffered from any sort of allergic reaction to the chemical spray he was exposed to, nor was there any evidence of internal or external injuries.

(Reporting by Brad Health and Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Alistair Bell and Bill Berkrot)

 

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