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The first images of the attack carried out on Wednesday by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan, againstto two soldiers of the National Guard en Washington.
In the video, captured by a witness, you can see the aggressor chasing Sergeant Andrew Wolfe in the middle of the street, one of the West Virginia National Guardsmen he shot in cold blood.
Now, the soldier fights for his life after entering a hospital in critical condition and undergoing emergency surgery.
🚨 SHOCKING WSJ FOOTAGE: Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal ambushes National Guard near White House, seen wielding a revolver, as a hero Guard FIRES BACK!
Tragically, 20yo Sarah Beckstrom DIED from wounds. Her partner Andrew Wolfe is still fighting for his life. pic.twitter.com/ref6TfVstq
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) November 28, 2025
His patrol partner was less fortunate. The soldier Sarah Beckstrom, 20 years old, died on Thursday, a day after the attack, after being shot several times in the head and chest.
Beckstrom and Wolfe were patrolling near 17th and 1st streets in northwest Washington when the Afghan assailant shot them with a Smith & Wesson .357 caliber revolverAccording to authorities, they called the attack “deliberate” and “selective.”
For these events, Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been accused this Friday of first degree murderannounced Jeanine Pirro, the prosecutor for the District of Columbia. The Afghan citizen was already facing charges of assault with attempted homicide with a weapon and possession of a firearm during a violent crime.
Former CIA collaborator
The perpetrator, who collaborated with the CIA and fought alongside US troops in Kandahar (Afghanistan), It first arrived in the United States in September 2021shortly after the chaotic American withdrawal from Kabul.
He lived with his wife and children in Bellingham, Washington, according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
Lakanwal was one of more than 190,000 Afghans admitted to the United States under Operation “Allies Welcome” and “Enduring Welcome” following the return of the Taliban regime, according to the State Department.
A senior US official told CNN that LakanwaHe started working with the CIA around 2011.
Investigated on several occasions
“This atrocity reminds us that we have no higher national security priority than ensure that we have complete control of the people who enter and remain in our country. For the most part, we don’t want them. They come here illegally,” he said. Trump this Thursday after reporting the death of the National Guard soldier.
Despite the Trump Administration’s claims to the contrary, Lakanwal was investigated on several occasions, both while working with the United States in his native country and during the immigration process.
He would also have been subject to an ongoing and annual investigation after the failed terrorist plot dismantled before last year’s elections in Oklahoma, which involved an Afghan evacuee, a senior US official told CNN.
The Trump administration granted him asylum in April, as several police officials informed CNN.
The American president has taken advantage of this attack to toughen his immigration policy by announcing that he is going to “permanently pause” the arrival of migrants from the poorest countries of the world.
In a furious message posted on the Truth Social network on Thursday night, he promised to “end all federal benefits and subsidies to non-citizens.”