Matthew Huttle, 42, was shot and killed on Sunday when police pulled his vehicle over, and he allegedly resisted and ended up in an "altercation" with an officer, an Indiana State Police (ISP) statement said. It remains unclear what he was being arrested for. Police added that Huttle had a firearm in his possession during the traffic stop.

A January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in the disorder has been shot dead by police during a traffic stop. Matthew Huttle, 42, was shot dead by a police officer during a stop on Sunday in Jasper County, Indiana, just days after being pardoned by the US president.

Watch again as people criminally charged with participating in the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, left prison after president Donald Trump pardoned them in a show of solidarity with supporters who stormed the seat of American power in his name.

Kaleb Dillard, 26, was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, on felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Federal Court Records) The entire ordeal, he said, led him to his now-wife and brought him closer to family and friends.

On the last day of federal court before Donald Trump takes office, the judge who presided over the president-elect’s now-dismissed criminal January 6, 2021, case told a defendant who admitted to disorderly conduct that day that he may be the last US Capitol rioter she’ll sentence.

Matthew Huttle, the pardoned Jan. 6 defendant shot by an Indiana deputy during a traffic stop, had a lengthy criminal history.