Wounded National Guard member volunteered to work day of suspected terror attack to spend Thanksgiving with family

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Wounded National Guard member volunteered to work day of suspected terror attack to spend Thanksgiving with family

The brave guardsman was identified as 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said at a Thursday press conference.

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Wounded National Guard member volunteered to work day of suspected terror attack to spend Thanksgiving with family​

By
Katherine Donlevy



Published Nov. 27, 2025

Updated Nov. 27, 2025, 10:30 a.m. ET


















The female West Virginia National Guard member critically wounded in a cowardly ambush by an Afhgan refugee Wednesday had volunteered to work that day so others could spend Thanksgiving with their families.

The brave guardsman was identified as 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said at a Thursday press conference.

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National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom was critically wounded in Wednesday’s shooting.
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Suspected gunman Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US during the chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, authorities said. FBI
She was shot in the chest and head, authorities previously reported.



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“She volunteered to be there on Thanksgiving — working today — she volunteers, as did many of those guardsmen and women so other people could be home with their families,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News early Thursday, before Beckstrom was identified as the second victim.

 

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Trump blasts ‘disastrous’ Biden over refugee program that allowed alleged Afghan DC guardsmen shooter into US

The president pledged to “re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden,” in response to the attack.

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Trump blasts ‘disastrous’ Biden over refugee program that allowed alleged Afghan DC guardsmen shooter into US​

By
Victor Nava



Published Nov. 26, 2025, 9:37 p.m. ET

















President Trump said the “monstrous ambush” of two National Guard members in Washington, DC, Wednesday “underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation greatest national security threat” — namely, the surge in immigration into the US under former President Joe Biden.

“I can report tonight that based on the best available information, the Department of Homeland Security is confident that the suspect in custody is a foreigner who entered our country from Afghanistan, a hellhole on Earth,” Trump said in an address to the nation from Palm Beach, Fla.

“He was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021 on those infamous flights that everybody was talking about,” the president continued.

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President Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday night in the wake of the DC shooting of two National Guardsmen.
“His status was extended under legislation signed by President Biden, a disastrous president, the worst in the history of our country.”







Trump added: “This attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation. The last administration let in 20 million unknown and unvetted foreigners from all over the world.”

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