Less than two blocks from the White House, two National Guard men were shot and killed in what the mayor of Washington, DC, described as a “targeted shooting,” leaving them gravely injured. According to police, a lone suspect opened fire on two West Virginia National Guard troops on Wednesday afternoon. Other National Guard members in the area who had heard the gunshots then subdued the suspect.
The alleged gunman was an Afghan national who entered the US in September 2021, according to President Donald Trump, who was in Florida at the time. The suspect “pays the steepest possible price for “an act of evil, an act of hatred, and an act of terror,” he promised his administration.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, was previously named by many law enforcement sources as the suspected gunman to CBS, the BBC’s US partner. It was unclear what his immigration status was.
Following the disorderly US pullout from Afghanistan in 2021 under former President Joe Biden, tens of thousands of Afghans entered the US under special immigration protections. Trump declared, “We must now re-examine every alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden,” during a live speech on Wednesday night.
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