Martinsburg, West Virginia (CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 6:51 p.m. ET]

President Donald Trump said Thursday that US Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, one of the National Guard members shot in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, has died.

“Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023 outstanding in every way. She’s just passed away,” Trump said in a Thanksgiving call to service members.

[Original story, published at 5:21 p.m. ET]

US Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and US Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe were called to the nation’s capital in August as National Guard troops from multiple states responded to President Donald Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement in the

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