Kyle Fitzsimons biography: 13 things about US Capitol rioter from Lebanon, Maine

Kyle B. Fitzsimons is an American man from Lebanon, York County, Maine, United States. He believed that Donald Trump was a lion leading an army of lambs through “lawfare.”

Fitzsimons worked as a butcher at Hannaford Supermarket in York, York County. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. On May 10, 2017, he spoke at a legislature public hearing in Maine where he made racist and xenophobic remarks, calling immigrants replacements. He said, “I’m from New York. I’m from Rhode Island. I did grow up in those states and I have to tell you that I think they are multicultural hell holes.”
2. In 2019, he followed Maine representative Michele Meyer into a parking lot, parked his truck behind her car and positioned himself so close to her car she could not have opened the door. He spoke of the 2nd Amendment and claimed America was headed to civil war over gun rights.
3. On January 5, 2021, he went to Washington, D.C., USA. Wearing a dark blue sweater and a white coat, he listened to Trump’s speech at the Stop the Steal rally on the Ellipse at the White House in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. After the rally, he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. That day,  supporters breached the building while a joint session of Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election. During the riot, he pushed and grabbed U.S. Capitol Police officers who were holding a police line in an arched entranceway on the building’s lower west terrace. He was hit by officers’ batons. Profusely bleeding from his head, he had to take six stitches at a hospital in Washington, D.C. to close a gash on the crown of his head.
4. On January 7, 2021, he called into a town meeting in Lebanon where he discussed his role in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. He said if it were the last day of the republic, he wanted to live it like he did every day.
5. On January 21, 2021, a tipster told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he is a gun owner known to be very vocal about his right-wing political beliefs.
6. He was a person of interest in the investigation of the suspicious package found at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine on January 23, 2021.
7. On February 1, 2021, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui signed a criminal complained FBI special agent Benjamin Spinale filed against him.
8. On February 4, 2021, FBI agents arrested him in Lebanon. For his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, he was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on U.S. Capitol grounds, assault on a federal officer and certain acts during a civil disorder.
9. On February 5, 2021, he made his initial appearance in Maine before U.S. Magistrate Judge John H. Rich III, who ordered him held preliminarily pending a detention hearing scheduled for February 11, 2021.
10. On September 27, 2022, he was found guilty in Washington, D.C. of seven felony charges and four misdemeanor charges.
11. He was supposed to be sentenced on April 3, 2023 but it was postponed as requested on March 23, 2023 by his new counsel Jonathan McDonald, who replaced Natasha Taylor-Richardson.
12. On July 13, 2023, a federal judge sentenced him to seven years and three months followed by three years of supervised release.
13. In September 2023, he turned 40.

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