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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...
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.
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
- 12 min
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.
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 10, 2022 · The widow of Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith has won a months-long fight to have her husband’s death declared in the line of duty, following his suicide days after the January 6,...
Jeffrey Smith died by suicide just days after he was assaulted during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Erin Smith said Tuesday she had “gone through hell and back” advocating for...
