Former Tennessee sheriff’s deputy Ronald Colton McAbee, referred to as a “terrorist” by a U.S. District judge in 2021, who tried to rescue a dying Rosanne Boyland at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, is considering a plea agreement that would stave off his October trial date.
Mr. McAbee, 29, of Unionville, Tennessee, had been scheduled for an Oct. 2 trial on Jan. 6 charges that include assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer; two counts of civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; and committing an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.
