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Jul 29, 2021 · Jeffrey Smith, a 12-year veteran patrolman, was one of hundreds of Metropolitan Police Department officers deployed on Jan. 6 to defend the Capitol from a violent mob. He was hit in the head...
Aug 18, 2023 · Capitol riot. DOJ finds police officer’s suicide after Jan. 6 attack was a death in the line of duty. Jeffrey Smith's death resulted in legislation that allows families of officers who die by...
- Ryan J. Reilly
Jeffrey L. Smith, a Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police officer, shot himself on January 15, 2021, after he assisted the United States Capitol Police on January 6, during the response to the storming of the Capitol. A psychiatrist hired by Officer Smith's widow found that drastic changes in Smith's behavior after January 6 are evidence that ...
Jan 27, 2022 · Jeffrey Smith, an officer with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, had died by suicide on Jan. 15, just nine days after the attack on the Capitol. The psychiatrist, hired by a lawyer for Jeffrey’s estate, was examining whether the injuries Jeffrey suffered on Jan. 6 had caused his death.
- Ryan J. Reilly
Mar 30, 2022 · Erin Smith, the widow of Jeff Smith, who died by suicide nine days after responding to the Capitol riot, fights for his line-of-duty death designation and recognition. She says the attack changed him and he suffered brain injuries and trauma.
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Aug 18, 2023 · 3 min. The U.S. Department of Justice has designated the death of D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith — who took his own life after helping defend the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot — as having...
Aug 22, 2023 · DOJ Rules Officer’s Suicide After Jan. 6 Riot A Line-Of-Duty Death. Erin Smith, whose husband Jeffrey Smith died days after suffering a traumatic brain injury in the Capitol attack, long advocated for the recognition for herself and others. By Nina Golgowski.
