US National Guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom, shot by Afghan suspect, dies: Donald Trump

.@POTUS announces that U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom of Summersville, West Virginia, one of the National Guardsmen savagely attacked yesterday in Washington, D.C., has just passed away.

May God be with her family 🙏 pic.twitter.com/BEbAOxmJme

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 27, 2025

‘We don’t want them’: Trump on ‘unwanted’ immigrants

The alleged shooter, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is now in custody. Lakanwal purportedly entered the US in 2021 and is now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on “act of terrorism” charge.

Showing a picture of a plane crammed with, whom he called immigrants, Trump said only the “toughest and meanest” people came to America and not those that “the US wanted”. He called the situation “total bedlam” and blamed his predecessor Joe Biden for it.

Trump further said: “The suspect is an Afghan national flown here by the previous Administration… We have no greater national security priority than ensuring that we have full control over the people that enter and remain in our country. For the most part, we don’t want them.”

Following Saraha Beckstrom’s death, New York mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani said: “I’m devastated to learn of the passing of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a member of the West Virginia National Guard. She was only twenty years old. As families across the nation come together today to celebrate Thanksgiving, let us take a moment to think of those in West Virginia who have been plunged into unimaginable grief.”