A St. Augustine man indicted after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has died while awaiting trial on charges that included civil disorder and assaulting or resisting officers.
John Steven Anderson’s attorney told a judge in Washington about the death during a case status conference Friday, court records show.
Anderson, 61, died Sept 21 at Baptist Medical Center South in Jacksonville, according to an obituary posted online by St. Johns Family Funeral Home & Crematory. The cause of death wasn’t listed.
The funeral home said Anderson started and ran businesses including Coastal Automotive and Diesel Service, Energy-Foam of North Florida, and EMP Provisions.
The obituary said he had been raised in Michigan and served in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years in his youth, later enlisting in the Florida Army National Guard and living most of his life around St. Augustine.
Anderson enjoyed politics and “supported numerous conservative candidates and causes as well as religious organizations and broadcasters,” the obituary said.
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