Rahmanullah Lakanwal<\/a>, the alleged gunman in the shooting of two National Guard members this week in Washington, D.C., also arrived in the U.S. under the same program.\u00a0<\/p>\nAlokozay was arrested on Tuesday \u2013 one day before the shooting in Washington, D.C. \u2013 by the Texas Department of Public Safety and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in a coordinated law enforcement effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, who came to the United States as part of Operation Allies Welcome, was arrested after posting a video of himself indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area in Texas. Texas Department of Public Safety<\/p>\n
Alokozay was arrested one day before the shooting in Washington, D.C. by the Texas Department of Public Safety and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. TNS<\/p>\n
Follow the latest on the National Guard shooting in Washington, DC: <\/p>\n
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the alleged gunman in the shooting of two National Guard members this week in Washington, D.C., also arrived in the U.S. under the same program as Alokozay.\u00a0 US Attorney’s Office\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
National Guard members Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, the two soldiers who were shot in Washington, DC. US Attorney’s Office\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
On Sept. 7, 2022, Alokozay was admitted to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident. \u00a0<\/p>\n
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since lodged a detainer on Alokozay following his arrest. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Afghan national was arrested this week after posting a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35474,1680,35491,35492,116,118,117,2930,734],"class_list":["post-69836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-afghanistan","tag-arrest","tag-bombings","tag-dc-national-guard-shooting-2025","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-national-guard","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}