Four officers who warded off US Capitol attack died of suicide

Two officers were reported to have committed suicide in July while two others died days after the January 6 riot.

The US District of Columbia’s police department has announced that two more police officers who responded to the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol have died by suicide, bringing to four the number of known suicides by officers on duty at the building that day. Metropolitan Police Officer Gunther Hashida was found dead in his home on Thursday, department spokesman Hugh Carew said in a statement. Hashida joined the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in May 2003.