Arrested after a fatal stabbing, a Utah man told police he brought a gun to Capitol riot

A man accused in the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old in a Utah park last July told police he figured he was already on the FBI’s radar — for flashing a gun during the Capitol riot.

“I was in the D.C. riots. You can look me up, OK?” Salt Lake City police said John Emanuel Banuelos told them seven months ago, after he was arrested in Liberty Park after the July 4 killing. “I’m the one in the video with the gun right here,” he said, according to police, his description of the video appearing to match a viral Vice News footage that showed a man flashing a weapon in his waistband while outside the U.S. Capitol.

Online investigators whose work has contributed to the identification and arrest of multiple rioters told NBC News they first gave Banuelos' name to the FBI in February 2021.