FOURTH Capitol riot cop, 26, commits suicide: DC police reveal officer was found dead at his home last month in statement just hours after disclosing third cop had taken his own life

A fourth police officer who clashed with Capitol rioters on January 6 has killed himself - putting the suicide rate among Capitol and DC cops at six times that of the normal rate among American cops. 

Kyle DeFreytag, 26, died on July 10. He had responded to the Capitol insurrection on January 6th and had worked the later shift on that day. DeFreytag had been positioned outside the Capitol. 

DeFreytag had been a Metropolitan Police Department officer for five years and worked in the city's fifth district. On January 6, he worked the late shift and was tasked with enforcing the city's curfew as people rioted and protested through the night.

Three others who responded to the Capitol that day have also killed themselves; Howard Liebengood, 51, Jeffrey Smith, 35, and Gunther Hashida, 43.