{"id":321635,"date":"2025-11-30T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321635\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:17:07","slug":"foreign-impacts-following-national-guard-attack-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321635\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign impacts following National Guard attack in D.C>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 It&#8217;s been three days since two National Guard members were shot by an Afghan national in downtown D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, there have been multiple developments.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials said the two guard members were shot multiple times during the targeted ambush. The FBI said the shooting is being investigated as a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/national-guard-shooting-timeline-washington-dc-sarah-beckstrom-dies-andrew-wolfe-critical-west-virginia-guardsmen-ambush-attack-violence-rahmanullah-lakanwal-afghanistan-president-trump-nation-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TIMELINE: How the National Guard shooting in DC unfolded and what happens now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, soldiers Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe were shot while on duty near a packed Farragut Square in downtown D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he\u2019s sending 500 more members to D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou picked the wrong target, the wrong city,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. \u201cAnd the wrong country, and you\u2019ll be sorry for the violence and evil that you perpetrated in our nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning, high-ranking officials, including Pirro, FBI director Kash Patel, and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, provided the first major update, saying that an Afghan national drove across the country from Washington state to D.C. and targeted the guard members. He worked with the CIA in Afghanistan and came to the United States under Operation Allies Welcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be very clear with the judge and everyone that\u2019s reported here, somebody drove across the country, came to Washington, D.C., to attack America,\u201d said Mayor Bowser. \u201cAnd that person will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. These young people should be at home in West Virginia with their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the night of Thanksgiving, Sarah Beckstrom died from her injuries in the hospital with her dad by her side.<\/p>\n<p>She was just 20 years old. Her father shared this message, saying, \u201cMy baby girl has passed to glory. If I don\u2019t talk to you, don\u2019t be offended. This has been a horrible tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their community back home in West Virginia is reflecting on the loss, and that Wolfe is still fighting for his life.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/national-guard-washington-dc-shooting-victims-west-virginia-farragut-square-white-house-people-man-woman-school-custody-condolences-social-media-images-hospital-treatment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Who are the National Guard members shot in DC?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday night, the director of U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, posted this statement on social media, saying, \u201cUSCIS has halted all asylum decisions until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is saying he will permanently pause migration from all third-world countries.<\/p>\n<p>Before the shooting, there were 2,188 National Guard members in D.C., 180 were from West Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 It&#8217;s been three days since two National Guard members were shot by an Afghan national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321636,"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-321635","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\/321635","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=321635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}