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US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro speaks to the press as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (L), FBI Director Kash Patel (R), looks on during a press conference regarding the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers on November 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot blocks from the White House in what authorities are calling a targeted shooting. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images) / Rahmanullah Lakanwal (Department of Justice)

Afghan suspect in Nat’l Guardsmen Shooting to be charged with first-degree murder following Beckstrom’s passing

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced Friday that charges against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan national accused of ambushing and shooting two newly sworn-in National Guardsmen near the White House on Wednesday, have been upgraded to first-degree murder following the death of 20-year-old West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom.

A makeshift memorial has been set up in honor of the two National Guard service members shot near the Farragut West Metro Station in Washington, DC on November 28, 2025, two days after a shooting killed one National Guard member and critically wounded another. Two National Guard troops were shot on November 26 near the White House in what authorities described as a targeted attack by an Afghan migrant who had previously worked with the US military in Afghanistan, a case now being treated as a terrorism investigation, after President Donald Trump said on November 27 that one of the soldiers, Sarah Beckstrom, had died and the other was fighting for his life. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images) / U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom (Department of Justice)

Trump: 20-year-old Nat’l Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has passed away after ‘targeted ambush’ shooting near WH

President Donald Trump announced that one of the two U.S. National Guard members from West Virginia who were shot by an Afghan national near the White House has tragically succumbed to her injuries.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 27: US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Brigadier General Leland Blanchard of the National Guard conduct a press conference regarding the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers on November 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot blocks from the White House in what authorities are calling a targeted shooting. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images) / (L) 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom. / (R) 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe. (Photos via: FBI)

D.C. Guardsmen shot by Afghan national identified by U.S. Attorney Pirro: ‘You picked the wrong target, wrong city and wrong country’

The two members of the West Virginia National Guard, both newly sworn-in, still remain in critical condition on Thursday as of 8:40 a.m. PT, after being shot in what authorities are investigating as a “targeted ambush” just blocks from the White House. Both have also been identified by D.C. authorities.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 26: (L-R) FBI Director Kash Patel, Executive Assistant Chief of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department Jeffery Carroll and Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser speak to the media following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers near the White House on November 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot near the White House Wednesday afternoon in what authorities are calling a targeted shooting. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Patel pledges justice for National Guardsmen shot in D.C., calls them ‘brave warriors’

FBI Director Kash Patel has vowed to deliver justice to “anyone responsible” for the midday shooting that left two National Guard troops in critical condition.

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 05: White House border czar Tom Homan speaks to reporters outside the White House on May 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. Homan spoke to reporters on a range of topics including U.S. President Donald Trump's recent comments regarding the reopening of Alcatraz. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Border Czar Tom Homan: Catholic Church is ‘wrong’ on mass deportations of illegals

Border Czar Tom Homan publicly pushed back Friday against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which this week condemned the Trump administration’s mass deportation of illegal aliens.

(L-Top) NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani attends the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 11, 2024 in New York City. U.S. President Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) joined family and friends at Ground Zero honoring the lives of their loved ones on the 23rd anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center. Biden and Harris will also attend ceremonies at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa, and the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., making visits to all three sites of the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) / (L-Bottom) A November 19, 2020 photo shows Sidney Powell speaking during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC. - US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis reportedly said that Powell is not a member of the Trump legal team. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) / (R-Top) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 10: Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows arrives at the office of the Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol on October 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. Meadows refused to answer questions from reporters about the January 6, 2021 attack and said he was giving a tour of the Capitol. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) / (R-Bottom) John Eastman a former lawyer for the forme US President Donald Trump's campaign attends a protest outside the US Supreme Court over President Donald Trump's move to end birthright citizenship as the court hears arguments over the order in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2025. Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office seeking to limit birthright citizenship for children whose parents are in the United States illegally or on temporary visas, but it has been blocked in multiple appellate courts. He appealed the case to the Supreme Court on March 13. (Photo by Drew ANGERER / AFP) (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin: Trump has pardoned at least 77 individuals accused of attempting to overturn 2020 election

President Donald Trump has issued “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to at least 77 individuals accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin announced late on Sunday night.