US Airforce veteran who lost her life in the Capitol riot

Ashli Babbitt, a US Air Force veteran who lost her life in riots

Ashili Babbitt,  a native of San Diego, California, and a US Air Force veteran, who recently remarried and worked at a pool service company with her husband Aaron Babbit wrote on social media about the upcoming gathering of Trump supporters in the US Capital, “Nothing will stop us. They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours” she wrote.

Ms Babbitt (35) was among the mob which breached the US Capitol on Wednesday, and identified by the US Capitol Police as one of four people who died amid the chaos.

Babbit a veteran of the US Air Forde served two tours in Afghanistan and Iraq before later deployments with the National Guard to Kuwait and Qatar, her ex-husband Timothy McEntee told US media.

On social media she described herself as a libertarian and a patriot, posited frequently about President Donald Trump, expressing ardent support for the president and echoing his unproven claims of wide scale voter fraud.