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Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, said the suspected gunman in the shooting of two National Guard members will be charged with first-degree murder after the death of a guardsman.

“There are certainly many more charges to come, but we are upgrading the initial charges of assault to murder in the first degree,” Pirro said in an interview Friday morning on Fox News.

US Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, originally from Webster Springs, West Virginia, died after being shot Wednesday in an attack near the White House. Pirro said the other guard member, US Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition.

Federal authorities have identified the suspected shooter as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an A

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