\n Investigation updates: Local, state<\/a> and national<\/a> officials have vowed to bring justice to the victims and their families. So far, investigators have recovered a handgun believed to have been used in the attack. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said he spoke to President Donald Trump about the two Guardsmen from his state who were shot.<\/a> \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep working to make sure that justice is served,\u201d Morrisey said.\n <\/p>\n \n More on the scene: Eyewitnesses recounted the violence<\/a>, with one telling the WUSA local television station that they heard five shots ring out before they saw people running. Another witness, who is visiting DC for the holiday, said he hid behind chairs<\/a> in Farragut Square and that he saw a person with his hands behind his back on his stomach, who he assumes was the shooter.\n <\/p>\n \n Emergency stay: The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court<\/a> for an emergency stay of an order from a federal judge to remove the National Guard from Washington, DC. Last week, the judge ruled the deployment was unlawful.\n <\/p>\n \n Former presidents weigh in: An array of officials have shared their condolences for those impacted by the shooting, including former Presidents Joe Biden<\/a> and Barack Obama.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n \n CNN\u2019s Brian Todd reported from the scene in DC today.\n <\/p>\n Two National Guardsmen shot in Washington, DC\n <\/p>\n Two members of the West Virginia National Guardsmen who were shot in Washington, DC are in critical condition, according to officials. CNN’s Brian Todd reports.<\/p>\n Two National Guardsmen shot in Washington, DC<\/p>\n 00:48 <\/p>\n \n CNN\u2019s Kaanita Iyer, Casey Gannon, Brian Todd and Taylor Romine contributed reporting.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, a gunman opened fire and left two National Guardmen critically injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-316135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"115456_DCShootingNationalGuard_Vertical_1.00_00_36_26.Still001.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/115456-dcshootingnationalguard-vertical-1-00-00-36-26-still001.jpg\")
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