Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has passed away after being critically injured in an ambush-style attack<\/p>\n
US Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two West Virginia National Guard members critically wounded in Wednesday\u2019s shooting in Washington, DC, has died of her injuries, President Donald Trump has announced.
\nTrump said on Thursday evening, \u201cShe\u2019s no longer with us. She\u2019s looking down at us right now. Her parents are with her,\u201d praising Beckstrom as a \u201chighly respected, young, magnificent person.\u201d
\nThe president added that US Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe is \u201cfighting for his life\u201d in the hospital.
\nA gunman shot Beckstrom and Wolfe at close range while they were patrolling the streets just blocks from the White House. The suspect, who was wounded in a firefight with other guardsmen, was taken into custody.
\nA new video of the attack emerged earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security identified the suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the country under a special program created in 2021 to evacuate vulnerable Afghans after the Taliban\u2019s recapture of Kabul.
\nTrump has blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for allowing Lakanwal into the US and has ordered the immediate suspension of immigration requests from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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