Posted on 11/27/2025 11:37:48 AM PST by Morgana
The devastated dad of one of the National Guard members gunned down in a suspected terror attack has revealed that she will not survive her injuries.
Sarah Beckstrom's father, Gary, provided the update on Thursday, just one day after his daughter was shot in Washington, DC.
'She has a mortal wound, it's not going to be a recovery,' he told the New York Times, speaking from her bedside. 'I'm holding her hand right now.'
Beckstrom was 'ambushed' alongside fellow West Virginia National Guard member Andrew Wolfe, 24, who was described as in a critical condition.
Afghan suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was injured during the shooting and is currently in custody in hospital with non-life-threatening wounds.
Lakanwal allegedly shot the National Guard soldiers just 800 yards from the White House on Wednesday.
The suspect drove across the country from his home in Bellingham, Washington state, where he lived with his wife and five children near the Canadian border, authorities said.
The soldiers were shot by a .357 Smith and Wesson revolver.
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Sad news, but I am still praying for a recovery.
Praying. Apparently it was her first day on the job in DC. We gotta stop ALL immigration now and treat this like a war. Ship them to CECOT NOW
They were not shot by a gun.
A man shot them using a gun.
Lakanwal was betrayed by Joe Biden, after Trump had the Taliban in check, and he takes revenge on an E-1 private serving under Trump.
Need to send the Treason 5 with them.
She wasn’t supposed to be there..she volunteered to be there for the Thanksgiving Holiday, just so so sad for her family..prayers for Sarah and her family
Brave warrior for Islam shoots a girl
“ The suspect drove across the country from his home in Bellingham, Washington state, where he lived with his wife and five children near the Canadian border, authorities said.”
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I, for one, would sure like to know his motivation (I have my suspicions), e.g.,
When are we going to start calling a spade a spade and label dem rhetoric as radicalizing/inciting the idiots subject to the effects of such rhetoric?
If the six who projected ‘illegal orders’ aren’t prosecuted, I’m going to be plenty pissed.
I struggle to recall a single imprisonment of a leftist who either incited such violence or engaged in it.
If our system won’t deliver lawful deterrence, then there is only one alternative…
Washington state. Same as the perp. Unreal.
It was an honor shooting.
It was reported that both victims were wearing bulletproof vests. Between that and the fact that their injuries had not been reported, I surmised that they had both been shot in the head, sadly making it likely that even if they survived, full recovery would be unlikely.
100%.
Thank you.
“Lakanwal was betrayed by Joe Biden, after Trump had the Taliban in check, and he takes revenge on an E-1 private serving under Trump.”
This E-1 private had nothing to do with Biden!
Yesterday I said I wanted to bury this man alive in a W. Va. coal mine. Today I wonder where is Vlad the Impaler when you need him?
It is a war!! And half our freaking government is against this country!! ENOUGH ALREADY!! It’s unbelievable
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I am totally pist off at Lakanwal. Apparently he was a commander in the Afghan army fighting along side the Americans. The POS Brandon abandons them, under orders from Otto Pen, but then when he settles in the U.S. Trump wants to deport him. Maybe he thinks he chose the wrong side. There were a lot of Afghans who just wanted to live a quiet life and not be bothered by the Soviets, or the Taliban, or the Americans, but that offer was not on the table. This guy thought the Americans had he best offer, but now he’s getting screwed, too. But why take it out on some poor low level troop, who has never been within a thousand miles of Afghanistan?
This is Biden’s mess. Add two more to the talley, Joe, and check your watch.
Will do.
Biden set the stage for the government in Afghanistan to topple, then we allowed many from Afghanistan and later Syria into the country which are barely vetted.
How do you vet someone from a place like Syria?
Other than ask them repeatedly “are you a bad guy” you have no real information to go off of, no local government feeding you information, nothing really. You could literally get a guy that was chopping off heads in Syria or building bombs in Iraq (both real cases) come in as “refugees.”
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