Four years after Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed as she tried to climb through a shattered glass door on Jan. 6, 2021 — quite literally all that separated lawmakers inside the U.S. Capitol from a raging mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters — her family has received a settlement of $5 million from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The settlement figure in the wrongful death lawsuit first brought in January 2024 was reported by The Washington Post and confirmed to CBS News by outgoing U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger.

In January 2024, Babbitt’s husband, Aaron Babbitt, and the family’s estate sued the federal government with the help of Judicial Watch, a far-right legal network long allied with President Donald Trump . Their wrongful death claim painted the 35-year-old’s

See Full Page