DC officer’s suicide after Capitol attack ruled line-of-duty death

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For months after his death, his widow, Erin Smith, had been fighting the police retirement and relief board to have her husband’s death declared in the line of duty.

WASHINGTON - The suicide of a Washington police officer days after the attack on the Capitol building has been ruled a line-of-duty death.

Forensic investigators were able to prove that Jeffrey Smith suffered a traumatic brain injury during the Capitol attack.

 

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