Breaking news: two National Guard members shot and killed in DC [see UPDATE]
This is the most recent article I could find. Terrible news:
Two West Virginia National Guardsmen have been shot and killed in Washington, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday. …
The Guardsmen were in Washington as part of a state deployment.
The New York Times reported that one suspect was in custody, citing police; while the Times quoted President Trump as saying the attacker also had been shot.
The shooting occurred just before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, at a Metro station about a minute from the White House, according to NBC Washington.
RIP.
UPDATE:
Now I’m seeing that the West Virginia governor may have erred in reporting that they had died:
FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said the Guard members were hospitalized in critical condition. Bowser said they were victims of a ”targeted shooting.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey initially said the troops had died, but later walked back the statement to say his office was “receiving conflicting reports” about their condition. The governor’s office did not immediately respond to questions about the attack and the condition of the troops.
UPDATE II:
It’s a little after midnight, and as of now the wounded National Guard members remain alive but in critical condition. The shooter, who was wounded but not critically, has been identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal:
A source familiar with the case and a separate law enforcement source told NBC News that the suspect was granted asylum this year.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said earlier that the suspect came to the U.S. from Afghanistan in September 2021 as part of “Operation Allies Welcome,” a program to help those who assisted the U.S. in Afghanistan. …
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order suspending all refugee resettlement in the United States until admissions align “with the interests of the United States.” Thousands of Afghan refugees, including many who had already been approved for U.S. resettlement, are now stranded in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries, and in some cases they have been forcibly repatriated.
However, Lakanwal was one of the crowds of post-withdrawal Afghanis who came here, to much criticism that they were often unvetted. I would guess this was one of the largely-unvetted ones. It’s easy enough to gain asylum, as well. Then again, maybe he was further radicalized here.
Then again, this information is a bit different:
The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen in a possible terror attack near the White House Wednesday was living in the US illegally after overstaying his visa, sources told The Post.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, arrived in the US through Operation Allies Welcome, the botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal plan that allowed roughly 90,000 Afghans to obtain Special Immigration Visas under the Biden Administration, sources said.
But Lakanwal, who resettled in Bellingham, Washington, reportedly overstayed his visa, which expired in September, FOX News correspondent Bill Melugin reported, citing federal law enforcement sources.
That article adds that Lakanwal lay in wait to ambush his victims:
On Wednesday, Lakanwal was lying in wait before he rounded the corner near the Farragut West Metro Station in Northwest DC around 2:15 p.m., then allegedly opened fire, striking a female guard in the chest before shooting her in the head, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The crazed gunman then allegedly fired at and struck the second guard — until a third guard stationed nearby rushed to the area and took him down, the sources said.
Trans? Furry? Antifa? Place your bets.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1993782326766260520
Video clip from the scene with guardsmen and Secret Service personnel rendering first aid. Some reports are saying the shot guardsmen are still fighting for their lives in hospital. May it be so and they should live to recover.
We need to honor these brave men who put on the uniform of our country. The lowest thing the Democrats do is to demonize them or try to exploit them like the seditious six.
God bless them.
The Democrats and their shock troops continue to win big victories every day
A DC judge/jury will let the shooter walk free and call these “righteous kills”
The cool civil war that we have been engaged in since Trump was elected is slowly morphing into a hot war. And I put the blame totally on the Democrats and their increasingly vile and crazed rhetoric.
No Thanksgiving
We are in a civil war and only one side is shooting.
It won’t stop. The Democrats want it 100%
I had to have some work done on my house. The contractor had two 19yo as apprentices. They had a work ethic that reminded me of those misty days of the past and little respect for those of their generation. Maybe there is hope yet … if they/we can survive the coming storm. I doubt the shooting will stay one-sided much longer …
Still no word on motive, I wonder!
Dwaz, add Muslim to the list of possibilities. I did read somewhere that the suspect appeared to be Arab but that is not confirmed. He had no ID and has not been cooperative.
Update:Suspect has been identified as an Afghan national
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/developing-suspect-shooting-near-white-house-identified/
The reports now agree on “critical condition.”
Horrifying. I hope the Governor was wrong. But it is still ominous as hell. DC is an open sewer and should be considered enemy territory. Prayers for the guardsmen and their loved ones.
Another reason why I believe the SS (or Seditious Six) need to be put in their place. Logically and legally I cannot prove they had any hand in this happening yet, and maybe they did not have a direct hand. But there needs to be deterrence and a chilling of this nonsense. It is helping to cause overheat.
There is an unconfined report in the Israeli press that the shooter was an Afghan National.
“The gunman accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House the day before Thanksgiving is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, three law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News Digital.”
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/2-national-guardsmen-critically-wounded-in-shooting-blocks-from-white-house
I read shooter is an Afghan national, let stay in the US by the Biden admin.
We must however sluggishly come to realize that Islam is an ideology, not a religion. Disguised as religion, it has free rein here, with CAIR spouting off ad lib as “free press”. Islam’s tenet is “convert or die”. No kidding.
Did not see Bob Wilson’s post until too late!
FJB got 13 killed in Afghanistan in 2021 and two critically wounded in 2025. The grift that keeps killing.
When will the democrats lighten up on their rhetorical attack on Trump? Since his election, they have escalated the amount and vituperativeness of their attacks, claiming he wishes to use the armed forces in support of his alleged fascism. Obviously, painting Trump and those who support him as fascists/nazis creates the impression that armed resistance is both justifiable and necessary. The apex of this propaganda came in the form of the six execrable politicians claiming that Trump is issuing “illegal orders” to the troops. They turn reality on its head, then claim innocence when confronted with their lies. They, and all those who support such tactics are reprehensible. Yet, I doubt there will be any serious repercussions against them, although the poisonous fruits of their efforts will continue to be harvested by innocent, patriotic Americans like the two soldiers shot by the Afghan invader yesterday.
I have some doubts whether that was an Islamist-motivated act. I can easily imagine a picture of a guy who went nuts when informed we would be deported to Afghanistan (if the reports he was one of the people helping the US there are true) and decided a US prison is better than Taliban.
None of this is justification of the crime or judgement on the deportations policy; just possibility of other motives. Even the reported cries “Allah akbar” do not prove Islamist convictions; for people grown up in Muslim societies it is often just as religious as saying “thank God” or “God forbid” or something similar in the West.
John Galt III,
The Left thinks they can win it!
With great care, the Commissar Judges will jump all over anything against their allies to destroy the Constitution.
Did/do the other 90,000 Afghans arriving have the same visa arrangements?
Somehow he got from Bellingham WA to the other Washington. Who helped him?
Line ’em up, squeeze ’em off. Every single one.
And that he said this before opening fire means what, troll?
LL—Sorry, but I’m not giving this perp the benefit of the doubt, or trying to find some other possible explanation other than this being a pretty clear act of Jihad.
As far as I understand it, “Allahu Akbar” i.e. “Allah is the greatest,” is not just some random, culturally determined, ordinary exclamation like “Damn,” but, instead, it is the traditional Muslim war cry, shouted in the context of conflict/war.
If a person from a Muslim country shouts the traditional Islamic war cry of “Allahu Akbar”–shouted countless times during violent attacks by Muslims throughout the world these last 1,400 years–while committing some sort of violent attack, it seems to me that this is proof positive that that attacker believed it to be, and that the attack was carried out, as part of Islam’s eternal Jihad against all us unbelievers.
George W. Bush took the war on terroir to the Muslim countries and called it the Global War on Terrorism. (GWOT). When Biden withdrew our forces from Afghanistan in such a haphazard fashion, he stupidly brought more terrorists here.
This perp’s motives probably were anti-American and pro-Jihadi, but he might also have been motivated by some of the Dems anti-Trump rhetoric. Maybe a bit of both. Hopefully, we’ll know soon.
In either case, it’s just another example of the wrong-headedness of Democrat policies.
Today, I’m very thankful for those who work in defense and law enforcement. We need them, and they answer the call. Bless ’em all.
Selfy, this tone you will be taking with your foreskin, not with me.
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has passed away. President Trump praised her as an outstanding soldier. RIP
Angrily reacting to the Muslim Afghan “refugee” ambushing two National Guardsmen—one of whom has now died, the other still in critical condition–President Trump posted the following on Truth Social–
“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization. These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process. Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation….. *
My questions are, will Congress go along with this policy and fund this effort, and where are all of the personnel needed to carry out such a gargantuan task going to come from?
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/breaking-fired-up-trump-vows-permanent-pause-migration/
According to recent reports, members of the Somali community in Minnesota are stealing American taxpayers blind via a number of brazen scams, while also using some of the scammed taxpayer’s dollars to fund the terrorist group Al-Shabaab.*
If President Trump wants to implement the filtering process he advocates above, there could be no better place to start than with the Somali community in Minnesota.
* See https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/20/somali-minnesota-al-shabaab-city-journal-chris-rufo-medicaid-housing-autism-feeding-our-future/
were they looking for him, like the two hijackers in the weeks prior to 9/11, after the moussaoui laptop was taken, he was no mere soldier, he was at least at one point with the kandahar strike force, an elite some might say corrupt militia, headed by karzai’s brother, Ahmed Wali (who himself was killed in 2018, in blue on green attack, which escalated until the end of the war,
some of this was described in the tome i referenced earlier by christina lamb, the mariner of the conflict for the Times of London, I always found Powell’s cracker barrel, bon mot, rather facile, because Afghanistan had been broken by nearly 20 years of war, before we arrived their in force, who could have put it back together, after the ISi’s doing,which raised the seeds of the Taliban, from the madrassas of Pakistan, the likes of Colonel Imam, who was ultimately devoured by the lions he had raised, like Colonel Iqbal behind the Mumbai siege,the adversary we rarely addressed, even when the raid on Bin Laden’s abode put in clearly in our laps, this isn’t an Acedemic point, the current Army of Chief of staff, General Munir seems to have adopted, the trappings that Zia and Musharaf held on to the throne, unlike a Sharif or a Zardari, who hold the Palace fir an interval,
could shah massoud if he had lived, put this puzzle back together, doubtful but he could have done better than karzai, the blue turbaned interlocutor we put in the Argh [alace in Kabul who worked with the warlords, term of art of for the likes Sher Akhanzasda of Helmand, localchieftains whooften had more money and materiel than the Capital did the kin of those who the Taliban had
defeated, some of them like Rashid Dostum are still part of the current resistance,
interesting the way some play this event,
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/backing-up-the-shark-truck
and by interesting I mean in the most trite way possible,
you ask for serious discourse, jane mayer and one of the other darrelbrother* are not itsome of the avenues I suggested above, which involve actors still in the minefield won’t even consider it like Brennan and General Milley,
the Capitol had a modicum of peace and safety, we can’t have nice things apparently, people might come to the wrong conclusionit took an Afghan interloper via Bellingham, a man of ‘sheer will and focus’ to upset the applecart, well we aren’t talking about the Epstein files for a bit, do the Seditious Six have any regret, I would seriously doubt it
*the krassensteins,