Gracyn Courtright Wiki – Gracyn Courtright Biography
Gracyn Courtright is a 23-year-old University of Kentucky student and West Virginia native who is facing federal charges in connection to January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Courtright posted photos on Instagram showing her at the pro-Trump rally in Washington D.C. before the riot and shared videos on Twitter showing her inside the Capitol building during the siege, according to federal prosecutors.
Federal authorities were also able to track down Courtright after the University of Kentucky student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, detailed the social media posts showing her involvement in the “Stop the Steal” rally and Capitol siege, according to court documents. Courtright, a native of Hurricane, West Virginia, is a senior at the University of Kentucky.
Courtright, who has a twin sister, is majoring in mathematical economics at the University of Kentucky, according to her Merit Pages account. She was named to the school’s dean’s list after the fall and spring semesters in 2020, according to posts by Courtright on Merit pages.
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Courtright exchanged Instagram messages with someone who later sent screenshots of the conversation to the FBI, according to court documents. The person who messaged her wrote, “you were there???” and Courtright responded, “Yes it wasn’t violent like the news said I took pictures all in the building I never saw the violence I guess I was lucky. The cops like let’s us walk in.” Courtright said she walked into an area where desks for the Senate are and said, “it’s history idc … I thought it was cool.”
The person she was messaging with then called her a moron and said she and her “what’s cool about that lady dying because you and your fellow idiots are crybabies over an election??? she’s dead,” in an apparent reference to Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol Police while climbing through a broken window near the House floor. “It’s history??? You’re in the wrong side of it dumb***. You embarrassed everyone who knows you,” the message said.
Courtright responded, “I’m sad she died? my friends are my friends everyday?” The other person then wrote, “What you did was treason.” Courtright responded, “idk what treason is.” Courtright also said later in the conversation she wasn’t embarrassed by what she did.
On Twitter, using her account @gracyn_forever, Courtright tweeted along with a video, “the police officers walked around with us, nobody is being violent!!! (From what I saw.) In another tweet with a video, she wrote, “PEACEFULLY CHANTING!!!!!!!!!!! Nobody fighting or destroying anything some of my CNN and Fox News watchers need to think for themselves.”
Gracyn Courtright Age
Gracyn Courtright is a 23-year-old.
Family
According to court documents, an FBI agent called Courtright’s father, Gregory Courtright, on January 12. Gregory Courtright is an attorney in Hurricane, West Virginia. According to FBI agent Mariam Hanna’s affidavit, Courtright’s father admitted his daughter was involved in the Capitol riots and said “she would cooperate with law enforcement.”
But according to court documents, Gregory Courtright was contacted on January 14 to set up an interview for his daughter with the FBI, and he said he was not comfortable with her giving a statement “unless she was notified she would not get in trouble for her actions.” Gregory Courtright did tell the FBI agent his daughter “traveled to Washington D.C. to be at ‘the party’ and stayed with friends from high school who live in the D.C. area.”
Hanna wrote in her affidavit, “According to her father, she was in front of the crowd during President Donald Trump’s speech. Her father further stated that she made it into the Capitol an hour after Trump gave his speech … Her father stated that she had recalled walking up a ramp prior to entering the Capitol and was able to walk in. The father concluded by stating that if his daughter was charged with a crime, he would assist in ensuring she turned herself in to authorities.”
Charge – Arrested
The three charges Courtright is facing in Washington D.C. federal court are misdemeanors. Two of the charges, unlawful entry and theft, carry a potential sentence of a fine and/or up to a year in federal prison. The third charge, unlawful activity, carries a potential sentence of a fine and/or up to six months in federal prison. It is unlikely she would face the maximum sentence, or anywhere near it, if convicted. It is not known if she has a prior criminal record.
According to court documents, the Capitol building was a “restricted building,” at the time when Courtright entered it. She entered a “posted, cordoned off or otherwise restricted area of a building or grounds where the president or any other person protected by the Secret Service, including the vice president, is or will be temporarily visiting.” The FBI also said Courtright violated the law that makes it illegal to “parade, demonstrate or picket” in the Capitol building. And the third charge accuses her of stealing the “members only” sign, which is valued at less than $1,000.
Courtright’s father told the FBI that even though he is an attorney, his daughter would hire a separate criminal attorney to represent her if she was charged. It was not immediately known if Courtright has hired an attorney and when she is scheduled to appear in court for the first time. She is likely to face charges initially in either Kentucky or West Virginia, depending on where she is arrested, and the case will then be transferred to D.C. federal court. The case has been assigned to Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui in D.C.
Investigation Report
Branden Gobeli, a political science student at the University of Kentucky, launched a Change.org petition calling on the University of Kentucky to expel Courtright. The petition has more than 1,500 signatures.
“I cannot express in words how insulted and disgusted I felt when it was reported a fellow student of my university attended,” Gobeli wrote on Change.org. “The actions by Gracyn Courtright on that day damage the democratic values that the University of Kentucky and United States stands for, undermine the institutions that are the bedrock of our great democracy, and completely insult and undercut the work that I and thousands of other University of Kentucky students put in every day to increase civic engagement among students and defend our democratic values and institutions.”
Gobeli added, “Such actions have no place at the University of Kentucky.”
The school said in a statement on Twitter, “Per our policy, we don’t discuss individual student disciplinary matters. In general, the Code of Student Conduct applies both on and off campus. If local, state or federal laws are broken, the student code of conduct applies.”
The University of Kentucky begins its spring semester, which would be Courtright’s final semester at UK, on January 25. It is not yet known if Courtright will still be enrolled when the semester begins.