Husband Of Rioter Killed in Capitol Attack Wants Name Of Officer

WASHINGTON, DC — The husband of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot while storming the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 insurrection, has filed a complaint against the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department asking for the identity of the U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot her.

Babbitt was fatally shot by a police officer as she tried to enter the Speaker's Lobby at the House of Representatives by climbing through a window that had been broken by her fellow Trump insurrectionists.

Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from Southern California, was the only fatality suffered by the insurrectionists at the hands of a police officer as they violently attacked Capitol Police and MPD officers in order to gain entry into the Capitol.

No charges have been brought against the officer who shot her, and the officer has not been publicly named.

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The civil lawsuit, filed last week in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, comes more than a month after the Department of Justice announced it would not pursue criminal charges against the Capitol police officer who fatally shot Babbitt, according to a CNBC report.

Authorities said it was reasonable for the officer to believe he was firing in self-defense or in defense of members of Congress, their aides and others from the violent Trump mob.

The officer and his colleagues were struggling to prevent Babbitt and other Trump supporters from gaining access to the Capitol and rampaging through the building.

The Capitol attack resulted in one of the worst days of injuries for law enforcement officers in the nation since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. About 140 officers — 73 from the Capitol Police and 65 from the MPD — were injured, with many of the injuries serious, the departments have said.