MA Man Guilty Of Multiple Felonies In Capitol Riot

Mass Live reports:

A Massachusetts man was found guilty of assault in federal court Friday For his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection after evidence showed him attacking police with a shield and pulling an officer toward the violent mob that laid siege to the U.S. Capitol Building, according to authorities.

Following a trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Vincent J. Gillespie, the 61-year-old Athol man, was found guilty of multiple felony and misdemeanor charges in connection with the attempted coup, including: assaulting, resisting or impeding officers; civil disorder; engaging in physical violence.

Law & Crime reports:

Arrested in his hometown earlier this year on Feb. 18, Gillespie engaged in what has been widely been described as the tunnel battle with officers in the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol.

It was the site of some of the worst violence in the Capitol attack. Multiple clues went into Gillespie’s identification, with the original tip being his clothing.

The FBI says he wore a sweatshirt with the logo of Berkshire Nautilus. Six witnesses identified Gillespie, including his former neighbor.

The Worcester Telegram reports:



Gillespie is the son of renowned postwar American artist Gregory Gillespie, whose self-portraits, fantasy landscapes and geometric abstractions are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other museums. Gregory Gillespie died in 2000.

The AP video captured a flushed Vincent Gillespie milling about outside the Capitol speaking defiantly about his role in the attack — and his lament that more like-minded individuals didn’t join the fight. “We were almost overpowering them,” Gillespie, blood visible on his scalp from the clash, told an AP journalist.