A fourth policeman involved in the assault on the US Congress on January 6 committed suicide on July 10.
This was announced by the leaders of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, a few hours after the news of a third suicide among the agents who on that day tried to defend Capitol Hill from the assailants.
Agent Kyle DeFreytag, 26, took his own life following the trauma of that day, as did his colleague Gunther Hashida, whose body was found last Thursday.
Two other policemen had committed suicide before him and some now call it "the curse of Capitol Hill".
Gunther Hashida and Kyle DeFreytag, veterans of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department, are the last two victims of the blackest chapter in the history of American democracy. Both had intervened in defense of the building attacked by the most extremist supporters of former President Donald Trump, together with colleagues from the Emergency Response Team department. Neither of them probably imagined the violence of that out-of-control crowd. At home they brought the signs of that battle, visible on the body, but the internal wounds are what led them to kill themselves at home after a fight against depression that lasted months: Hashida shot himself on July 29, DeFreytag on July 10