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A Grand Jury indicted 2 men in connection with assault of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick

Haven Orecchio-Egresitz   

A Grand Jury indicted 2 men in connection with assault of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick
  • A Grand Jury has indicted 2 men accused of conspiring to assault Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick.
  • Sicknick died a day after the riot. Investigators said he might have been targeted with a chemical.
  • The men are accused of using bear spray on Sicknick and two other officers, reports said.

A federal Grand Jury indicted two men on charges that they conspired to injury Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died the day after the insurrection, according to the indictment viewed by Insider.

Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, of West Virginia, were arrested on Sunday.

Arrest papers said Khater asked Tanios for bear spray and then used it on Sicknick and two other officers.

"Give me that bear s---," Khater told Tanios in a video recorded at the Capitol on the afternoon of January 6, court papers said, according to the news outlets.

About nine minutes later, Khater could be seen discharging a canister into Sicknick's face.

The Grand Jury indicted the men on 10 counts, ranging from civil violations to charges of using deadly weapons during their planned assault on officers.

The more serious charges include conspiring to impede or injure officers; assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon; and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building using a deadly or dangerous weapon.

Prosecutors say that Khater and Tanios planned the timing of when they would carry out their assault on three officers - Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer identified as C. Edwards, and a Washington, DC, police officer identified as B. Chapman - with a deadly weapon.

Sicknick, 42, a New Jersey native, died on the morning of January 7, a day after "physically engaging with protesters" who were storming the Capitol, the Capitol Police said.

Sicknick's death has not been ruled a homicide, and authorities have not identified a cause of death.

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