{"id":6521,"date":"2026-04-24T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:23:17","slug":"national-guard-member-sarah-beckstrom-dies-after-shooting-near-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/?p=6521","title":{"rendered":"National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom dies after shooting near White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump has announced that National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died after the Wednesday shooting in Washington, D. C. The other guardsman, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still being treated at the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24, were gunned down in Washington, D.C, on Wednesday. The alleged gunman is Afghan soldier Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29. DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said she believed both Beckstrom and Wolfe were sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump made the announcement on Thursday night, describing Beckstrom as a \u201chighly respected, young, magnificent person\u201d who was \u201csavagely attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s just passed away. She\u2019s no longer with us. She\u2019s looking down at us right now. Her parents are with her. It\u2019s just happened,\u201d Trump said.<strong>READ MORE BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has announced that National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died after the Wednesday shooting in Washington, D. C. The other guardsman, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}