The jury ordered that chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman must pay Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Jeffrey Smith, inside ...

In a rare ruling — one believed to be a first for the D.C. police department — the death of Officer Jeffrey L. Smith, who died by suicide in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U ...

A second police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has committed suicide, the acting chief of Metropolitan Police Department told lawmakers Tuesday.

The suicide of a Washington, DC police officer nine days after he was attacked during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been deemed a line-of-duty death, a report said.

"Officer Jeffrey Smith would still be alive today if he hadn't risked his life to defend all of us at the U.S. Capitol and our democracy itself on January 6," Rep. Don Beyer said in a statement.

Jeffrey Smith, a police officer who confronted a mob in the Capitol, later shot himself. His widow blames the riot, and is asking for full death benefits. By Shaila Dewan Jeffrey Smith, a 12-year ...

President Joe Biden presents a Presidential Citizens Medal posthumously to Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Jeffrey L. Smith, as his widow Erin Smith accepts the medal, during a ...

Erin O. Smith is the widow of Jeffrey L. Smith, a D.C. police officer who was injured at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. He died on Jan. 15, 2021, as a result of the injuries he suffered. His line ...

A Washington, DC, police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot committed suicide in the days after the siege, the acting chief of the Metropolitan Police Department told members of Congr… ...

WASHINGTON — Nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith shot and killed himself while driving to work. Over four ...

The police officers who died as a result of Jan. 6 died in the line of duty, ... The two others were D.C. Police officer Jeffrey Smith and Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood, ...

Nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith shot and killed himself while driving to work. June 16, 2025.