On January 26, 2025, one week after J6er Matthew Huttle received a full Presidential pardon, he was shot and killed by a Jasper County sheriff deputy in his home state of Indiana. Huttle was released from the D.C. Gulag in July of 2024 after serving a six-month prison sentence. When Matt was released from the Gulag, he visited the “Eagles Nest,” and “Mama” Micki Witthoeft, the mother of slain J6er Ashli Babbitt who was shot and killed by police on January 6, before he returned back home to Indiana. Matt was a carpenter who had worked on numerous construction projects, his current job was at Bridge Petroleum, and he was doing really well. Fellow J6er Dan Leyden and Matt were cell mates in prison and became close friends. Matt’s father, Don Huttle was glad to see the two had become friends as Dan was a good role model and friend to him. Matt was in turn helping Dan get a job after he was released with a full Presidential pardon.
If now 42 year old Matt had a distrust of law enforcement prior to his incarceration for J6, in spite of or perhaps because of his own father, Don Huttle, being retired law enforcement, he most certainly did after his release from the Gulag. Imagine the torture of being in the locked-up, put in solitary confinement, enduring anguish we never know, for a misdemeanor that happened because every J6er was intentionally set up as entrapment. Couple that with Indiana saying they would throw him in jail for 30 years on a felony driving without a license.While relocating to another state other than Indiana would have been safer for him, considering earlier legal troubles and a revoked license in the state, Matt chose to stay in Indiana to be close to his family. According to those who knew Matt, he vowed he would kill himself before ever again being forced back into prison.
Hellbound and Down 