{"id":317647,"date":"2025-11-28T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317647\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:18:07","slug":"us-president-donald-trump-says-national-guard-soldier-shot-in-washington-dc-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317647\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump says National Guard soldier shot in Washington DC has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">US President Donald Trump says National Guard soldier Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, who was shot near the White House in Washington DC on Wednesday, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A male soldier who was also shot, Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, is fighting for his life, the president added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Speaking off the cuff at the White House, Mr Trump said he had been told of Ms Beckstrom&#8217;s death seconds before fronting the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she&#8217;s just passed away. She&#8217;s no longer with us. She&#8217;s looking down at us right now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Her parents are with her. This just happened. Savagely attacked, she&#8217;s dead. She&#8217;s not with us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Incredible person. Outstanding in every single way, in every department. It&#8217;s horrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The alleged shooter, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the US in 2021, is in custody and the shooting is being investigated by the FBI as an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A split-screen image of a man and a woman, both wearing National Guard uniforms.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fb768a801d65005ffe5162c2563d6e9b\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">National Guard troops Andrew Wolfe, left, and Sarah Beckstrom were shot just blocks from the White House. (Reuters: Nathan Howard)<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump says National Guard soldier Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, who was shot near the White House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,12,451,162923,3,162784,14220,452,453,2002,3123],"class_list":["post-317647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-national-guard-soldier","tag-news","tag-sarah-beckstrom","tag-shot","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-washington","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317647","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=317647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}