Julian Khater biography: 13 things about US Capitol rioter from Somerset, New Jersey

Who is Julian Khater?

Julian Elie Khater is an American man from Somerset, New Jersey, United States. Somerset is around 200 miles away from Washington, D.C., USA.

On November 3, 2020, Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election, defeating Donald Trump. On January 6, 2021, Trump’s supporters breached the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. while a joint session of the U.S. Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Biden’s victory.

Khater joined the U.S. Capitol riot. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He is an alumnus of Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg Township, Somerset County, New Jersey and Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, Bergen County, New Jersey.
2. Aside from Somerset, he has lived in other parts of New Jersey including New Brunswick.
3. He previously lived in State College, Pennsylvania, USA; Ethridge,  Lawrence County, Tennessee, USA and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
4. He is 7 years younger than George Pierre Tanios of Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
5. He was born in 1989.
6. From 2007 to 2009, he attended Raritan Valley Community College where he earned his associate’s degree in business administration and management.
7. From June 2007 to November 2012, he worked as an assistant manager at Peter’s Liquors.
8. From 2009 to 2011, he attended Fairleigh Dickinson University where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration and management.
9. From September 2011 to December 2016, he worked as a bar manager at Panico’s Italian Restaurant in New Brunswick.
10. From December 2014 to September 2016, he worked as a financial sales consultant at PNC in Somerset.
11. From December 2016 to January 2018, he was an event ambassador and bartender at Topgolf in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
12. From January 2018 to January 2019, he worked as the general manager of Frutta Bowls, which he co-owned, in Chapel Hill.
13. From January 2019 to May 2020, he was the Frutta Bowls general manager in State College.

TIMELINE

2021

• On January 6, 2021, he and Tanios went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., USA and they allegedly worked together to assault law enforcement officers with an unknown chemical substance by spraying officers directly in the face and eyes. He allegedly sprayed an unknown substance on the faces of officers Brian Sicknick, C. Edwards and B. Chapman, who suffered injuries as a result.
• On March 6, 2021, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui signed a criminal complaint filed against him and Tanios by a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent. He and Tanios were each charged with civil disorder, conspiracy to injure an officer, obstructing or impeding an official proceeding, physical violence on restricted grounds while carrying dangerous weapon and resulting in significant bodily injury, violent entry and disorderly conduct, act of physical violence on U.S. Capitol grounds and three counts of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.
• On March 14, 2021, he was arrested as he disembarked from an airplane at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

2022

• On September 1, 2022, he pleaded guilty to two felony charges for assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan ordered 36 months of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution of $2,000 and a fine of $10,000.

2023

• On January 27, 2023, he was sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison.

2024

2025

• On January 20, 2025, he was released from prison after Trump pardoned him and around 1,500 other U.S. Capitol rioters.