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Mark Roderick Aungst

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Mark Roderick Aungst was a South Williamsport, Pennsylvania man — a father and grandfather from Lycoming County whose memory is carried gently in the J6 community. FACT: On January 6, 2021, Mark Aungst rode a chartered bus from Pennsylvania to Washington to attend the rally. He entered the Capitol around 2:45 p.m. — about 30 minutes after the initial breach — and was inside for roughly 30 seconds. Per DOJ records, he committed no violence and destroyed no federal property (Law&Crime; NorthcentralPa.com). In June 2022 he pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He never made it to sentencing. On July 20, 2022, Mark Aungst died at age 47, taking his own life while awaiting a sentencing date that fall (FACT: Lycoming County coroner, via Law&Crime; The Washington Times; NorthcentralPa.com). His death was widely mourned among J6 families as one of the human costs of the prosecutions. His name is remembered among those who did not live to see January 20, 2025, when the presidential clemency proclamation pardoned January 6 convictions like his. Case record: prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a joint case with co-defendant Tammy Bronsburg. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.