The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, will be charged with first-degree murder, said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Friday on Fox News following the death of U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom.

Alternating between “periods of dark isolation and reckless travel,” the Afghan suspect sometimes spent weeks in his “darkened room, not speaking to anyone, not even his wife or

President Donald Trump was answering questions over the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington D.C.

Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal was identified as the gunman who allegedly shot two National Guardsmen near the White House, sources told Fox News Digital.

While Lakanwal began as a security guard for the unit in 2012, he later ascended to a team leader and GPS specialist, said the cousin who did not want to be publicly identified.

The Biden administration first allowed Lakanwal to enter the U.S. in September 2021 as a refugee through Operation Allies Welcome.

An Afghan man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, suspected in a shooting of two National Guard members in D.C., is expected to recover from injuries and face trial.

The guardsmen from West Virginia were shot just north of the White House shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday. The identity and motive of the suspected shooter remains unclear. Trump had deployed the National Guard to D.C. in August to crack down on crime. The move was controversial and angered some residents.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal was among the Afghans who came to the United States after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Earlier, he served in a paramilitary unit that worked with U.S. forces.

According to 2024 emails obtained by CBS News, Rahmanullah Lakanwal had been struggling to hold a job and had not been doing well mentally for more than a year.