{"id":54296,"date":"2025-11-27T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54296\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:13:11","slug":"national-guard-member-critically-wounded-in-suspected-terror-attack-in-washington-dc-unlikely-to-survive-dad-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54296\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guard member critically wounded in suspected terror attack in Washington DC unlikely to survive, dad says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/27\/us-news\/second-national-guard-member-wounded-in-suspected-terror-shooting-in-dc-idd-as-20-year-old-female\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Guardswoman gunned down<\/a>\u00a0by a suspected terrorist in Washington DC is not expected to survive, her devastated father revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has a mortal wound. It\u2019s not going to be a recovery,\u201d the father of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, Gary Beckstrom, told the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m holding her hand right now,\u201d the devastated dad added.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Beckstrom seen with her father Gary. Facebook \/ Gary Beckstrom<\/p>\n<p>Beckstrom seen in her graduation gown.<br \/>\n Facebook \/ Sarah Beckstrom<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic footage shows the immediate aftermath of a shooting near the White House that left two National Guard members wounded. Elizabeth Gomes via Storyful<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The father declined to say anything more.<\/p>\n<p>His 20-year-old daughter was shot in the head and chest just blocks from the White House around 2 p.m. Wednesday, when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/27\/us-news\/afghan-dc-terror-ambush-suspect-should-have-never-been-allowed-to-come-here\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspected terrorist Rahmanullah Lakanwal<\/a>, 29, allegedly opened fire on her and another National Guardsman patrolling the area at her side.<\/p>\n<p>Other\u00a0<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\">National Guard member Andrew Wolfe<\/a>\u00a0was also critically wounded in the shooting near the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0National Guardswoman gunned down\u00a0by a suspected terrorist in Washington DC is not expected to survive, her devastated father&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5435,9,11,10,3980,3694,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-54296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-national-guard","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-shootings","13":"tag-terrorism","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296","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=54296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}