According to a press release from the Department of Justice, a Tennessee man was arrested this Thursday for assaulting a law enforcement officer and breaking a window and damaging a door while partaking in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Edward Kelley, 33, has been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, civil disorder, destruction of government property, and related offenses.
According to the DOJ, Kelley was among the first rioters to enter the Capitol building through a breached window,
According to court documents, on Jan. 6, Kelley was among a crowd of rioters illegally gathered at the Capitol Building. He was wearing a gas mask and green tactical helmet and had a backpack secured across his chest. Kelley moved to the scaffolding over the stairs of the West Front of the Capitol Building, where he and two other men got into an altercation with a Capitol Police officer. Kelley also pushed and pulled on a metal barricade as he made his way to the outside of the Senate Wing Door. He then used a piece of wood to breach the window adjacent to the Senate Wing Door. He was the fourth rioter to enter the building through the window. After entering through the breached window, Kelley moved to the still closed Senate Wing Door and kicked it open, which allowed other rioters to enter. As he moved through the building, Kelley changed from the gas mask into a red, white, and blue medical mask, eventually entering the Rotunda. Kelley left the building approximately 40 minutes after he first broke in.
Kelley was part of the group of rioters slowed down by Officer Eugene Goodman. This is on the first floor just before the West stairs. In the background left, that is reporter @igorbobic behind Goodman, shooting video of the confrontation. pic.twitter.com/TAo8W0aqYt
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 5, 2022
Read the full press release here.
