LANCASTER (TNS) — A Lancaster County man accused of repeatedly punching a police officer and stealing another officer’s body camera during the Jan. 6 insurrection died Sunday—just as his attorney said the two were going to attempt to resolve the case, according to LancasterOnline.

Michael Lopatic, 58, of Manheim Township, Lancaster County, died Sunday at Lancaster General Hospital, according to his obituary. A cause of death has not been released, but he was known to have numerous health issues, including a benign brain tumor.

“He got caught up in something I think he really didn’t understand,” Dennis Boyle, Lopatic’s attorney, said on Tuesday, according to LancasterOnline.

A grand jury indicted Lopatic in 2021 after he was identified as being among the mob trying to impede the legitimate certification of the 2020 Presidential Election.

Lopatic was a Knight of Columbus, had strong anti-abortion views, and was at the Capitol to advance his anti-abortion beliefs, Boyle said according to LancasterOnline.

According to court documents filed with the U.S. Eastern District of Pennsylvania, between 4 and 5 p.m. the day of the riot, a Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officer, who was assigned to the Capitol to assist that day, was posted in an archway to help prevent the crowd from getting inside.

He saw a group of thousands approaching, some of whom were throwing and swinging various objects, and they grabbed another officer and dragged him down the stairs, engulfing him in a violent mob, according to court documents.

The Metropolitan officer rushed in to help, but a man, later identified as Lopatic, climbed over a handrail and charged the officer, prosecutors say. His actions were caught on the officer’s body camera.

Prosecutors say Lopatic continuously punched the officer in the head, then grabbed him by the head and hit him with an uppercut punch.

That’s when Lopatic went back to the other officer, who was surrounded by people trying to form a human shield and protect him from the violent mob. Lopatic reached into the crowd and stole that officer’s body camera, which would have contained crucial evidence in the investigation, prosecutors say.

Lopatic admitted later to the FBI that he had disposed of the camera on his way back to Lancaster County, records state.

In building the case against Lopatic, prosecutors also say his own words on social media showed his actions at the Capitol were not spontaneous.