WASHINGTON — As the crowds stormed the U.S. Capitol nearly one year ago, several people, from police officers to a rallygoer, died inside the capitol.
Washington correspondent, Kirstin Garriss, looks at the impact that day had on those inside and outside the buildings as they describe the horror of what they experienced.
DC Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone was dragged into the crowd and beat during the attacks on Jan. 6.
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“I heard get his gun. Kill him with his own gun,” Fanone said.
In a special hearing before congress last summer Fanone and three other offices grippingly described every detail of their experiences that day.
Fanone said he was electrocuted repeatedly with a Taser — other officers weren’t as lucky.
Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was reportedly hit in the head with a fire extinguisher and pepper-sprayed twice.
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The medical examiner determined that played a role in the stroke that later claimed his life.
Inside of the Capitol building Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force Veteran, was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer.
An investigation cleared the officer who fired the shot, but Babbitt’s family is suing the Capitol Police Department.
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Three days after the attack a Capitol officer of 15 years, Howard Liebengood, died by suicide. Officer Jeffrey Smith did the same several days later.
Meanwhile, surviving officers say the day continues to haunt them.
Sergeant Aquilino Gonell with Capitol Police said he was more afraid to work at the Capitol that day than his entire deployment in Iraq.
There were at least three other deaths that happened at the riot on Jan. 6, two of them were determined to be natural causes, the other was a drug overdose.
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