Capitol Police Officer’s Post-Jan. 6 Suicide Designated a Line-of-Duty Death

An eight-foot-tall steel fence topped with concertina razor wire circles the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 29, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

One of the U.S. Capitol Police officers who died by suicide in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach has been determined to have died in the line of duty, according to his family and officials.

Howard Liebengood killed himself on Jan. 9, several days after joining the response to the breach, according to the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP).