Woman Shot Dead as Mob Overran Capitol ID’ed as QAnon supporting 14-year Air Force Vet

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The woman shot dead as a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday has been identified by her family as an Air Force vet who was an outspoken supporter of Trump.

Local San Diego news outlet KUSI named the woman as Ashli Babbitt, a San Diego resident who is said to have served 14 years in the military. Her husband, who was not identified by name in the report, described her as an avid Trump supporter. The two are said to own a business together in San Diego, though he did not travel with her to D.C.

“I really don’t know why she decided to do this,” Babbitt’s mother-in-law was quoted as telling Fox 5 DC.

Babbitt supported the violent pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, according to her Twitter account. She quoted “Q,” the anonymous figure behind QAnon, which falsely claims Democrats and other opponents of President Trump are Satanic pedophiles, in an Aug. 21 tweet, writing: “It is going to be biblical - Q.” On Sept. 7, Babbitt posted a picture of herself at a Trump boat parade with the hashtag “WWG1WGA,” a reference to the QAnon slogan, “Where we go one, we go all.”

In total, Babbitt sent 21 tweets referencing the QAnon slogan, starting in February 2020. She also praised major QAnon promoters on the platform, and appeared to embrace conspiracy theories that hospitals are claiming fake coronavirus patients.

Babbitt kept up her support for QAnon just days ahead of the protest. On Jan. 1, she tweeted that she would be in Washington for Jan. 6, adding “WWG1WGA.”

On Jan. 5, a day before her death, Babbitt tweeted references to another QAnon slogan, “dark to light,” and said the United States would soon see “The Storm”—a moment much awaited by QAnon followers, in which Trump would execute his opponents in the Democratic Party.

“They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours....dark to light!” Babbitt wrote.

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