[dragonwriter]

> If you browse social media you will find that many of the users there still believe that Officer Sicknick was murdered by Trump supporters.

The felonious mass attack on the Capitol, and acts taken by particular participants in the course of that mass felony, seems nearly certainly to be a but-for cause of his death, so everyone engaging in that mass felony likely murdered him under the felony murder rule; the people who directly assaulted him, whose acts are most direct contributors to his death, probably committed something between voluntary manalaughter and depraved-heart murder even disregarding the felony murder rule.

People have been convicted of murder when the person murdered ied of a heart attack nearly a month later in which the stress of the criminal act as well as preexisting conditions were factors; that the immediate cause of death appears to be a heart attack doesn’t make this not-murder.