Two members of the National Guard were shot and critically injured in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Nov. 26. The two victims, Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24, have been identified as members of the West Virginia National Guard, and were deployed to the capital this week as part of orders issued by President Donald Trump in August to send National Guard troops to the city to combat an alleged spike in crime.

During a press conference Thursday morning, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro identified the alleged gunman as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who at one point worked with the CIA in one of its paramilitary groups also known as “Zero Units.” According to the New York Times , a childhood friend of Lakanwal’s said the violent nature of the unit he worked

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