Mr. Alam smashed windows in the Speaker’s Lobby entrance where Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot and later told protesters leaving the Capitol: ‘We need guns.’
John Earle Sullivan had been convicted in late 2023 of seven Jan. 6 charges. He filmed the shooting of Ms. Babbitt outside the Speaker’s Lobby at the Capitol.
“The facts speak truth. Ashli was ambushed when she was shot by Lt. Byrd. Multiple witnesses at the scene yelled, ‘you just murdered her,’” the lawsuit states.
‘Ashli’s voice was taken that day. Now I speak for her. Ashli’s name is going to be written in history books at some point. I want it to be written correctly.’
Zachary Jordan Alam, the Virginia man who taunted police inside the U.S. Capitol and smashed out the windowpane where Ashli Babbitt was shot on Jan. 6, 2021, wa