{"id":54110,"date":"2025-11-27T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54110\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:13:09","slug":"second-national-guard-member-wounded-in-suspected-terror-shooting-in-dc-idd-as-sarah-beckstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54110\/","title":{"rendered":"Second National Guard member wounded in suspected terror shooting in DC ID&#8217;d as Sarah Beckstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second West Virginia National Guard member critically wounded in a cowardly ambush by an Afhgan refugee Wednesday has been identified as a newly sworn-in soldier. <\/p>\n<p>The brave guardsman was identified as 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said at a Thursday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom was critically wounded in Wednesday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Suspected gunman Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US during the chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, authorities said. FBI<\/p>\n<p>The second guardsman was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/27\/us-news\/one-of-two-national-guard-members-shot-in-dc-idd-as-andrew-wolfe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously identified as 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Sarah and Andrew were sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot on the street in Washington,\u201d Pirro revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Officials give an update on the shooting with posters of the victims and the suspect. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Both have undergone surgery and are in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>They sustained the life-threatening injuries when <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/26\/us-news\/afghan-national-rahmanullah-lakanwal-idd-as-alleged-gunman-in-shooting-of-2-national-guard-members-in-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29,<\/a>\u00a0allegedly opened fire near the Farragut West Metro Station in Northwest DC\u00a0in what\u2019s being probed as a possible terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest on the National Guard shooting in Washington, DC: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey received the finest medical care. Their families are with them now. They are critical \u2014 I think you understand the meaning of that. It\u2019s not clear how this is going to end up. But let me be perfectly clear about how it will end up in this office \u2014 if one of them is to pass, and God forbid that happens, this is a murder one. Period. End of the story,\u201d said Pirro.<\/p>\n<p>We are praying on a day like today when families come together in America and they hold hands around the Thanksgiving table. I beg you, I beseech you to play, to pray for these two young people that they survive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second West Virginia National Guard member critically wounded in a cowardly ambush by an Afhgan refugee Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5970,29807,15914,5435,9,11,10,3980,3694,58,8093],"class_list":{"0":"post-54110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-fbi","9":"tag-jeanine-pirro","10":"tag-kash-patel","11":"tag-national-guard","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-shootings","16":"tag-terrorism","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-washington-dc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}