Illinois Man Charged With Firing a Handgun on Capitol Grounds on Jan. 6

Published on March 11, 2024

A suburban Chicago man believed to be shown on newly surfaced video firing a handgun into the air near the U.S. Capitol has been charged by federal prosecutors with five Jan. 6 crimes. John Emanuel Banuelos, 39, of Summit, Illinois, is named in a criminal complaint unsealed on March 11 with carrying and discharging a firearm on Capitol property on Jan. 6, 2021. It is the only known case of a rioter firing a weapon near the Capitol or other Washington protest sites on Jan. 6. Mr. Banuelos was arrested by the FBI at his sister’s home in the southwestern Chicago suburb of Summit on March 8....

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