Vermont man Trump pardoned for role in Jan. 6 protest at U.S. Capitol dies by suicide: report

Nicholas Languerand, a native of Vermont who was convicted of a federal crime for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol, died by suicide. 

According to police reports in Horry County, S.C., witnesses saw Languerand crash his car into a ditch on May 31. He then got out of the vehicle and shot himself. Languerand was using drugs and had been going through a breakup, his grandfather told the coroner, but he thought his grandson "was doing better," Seven Days reported on Tuesday.

Languerand, 31, was living in Wolcott, Vermont, prior to the protest and moved to South Carolina shortly afterward. He was arrested in April 2021 after federal agents tracked him down with his own social media posts, which included video of him throwing various objects at Capitol police. 

He pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and served approximately three years in federal prison before he was released in August 2024. The following January, President Donald Trump issued a grant of clemency to Languerand, along with 1,600 others who had been charged in connection with the protest.