Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old West Virginia National Guard soldier who was wounded in a shooting near the White House, has died of her injuries, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday.

Beckstrom was shot on Wednesday while on patrol alongside fellow Guardsman Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, in what Trump termed “a terrorist attack.”

During his Thanksgiving call to U.S. troops, Trump said that he had just learned that Beckstrom had died, while Wolfe was “fighting for his life” in the hospital.

“She’s just passed away,” Trump said. “She’s no longer with us. She’s looking down at us right now.”

He described Beckstrom as an “incredible person, outstanding in every single way,” and suggested that the shooter was mentally unstable after moving from Afghanistan to the Unit

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