Two National Guard soldiers are critically injured after being gunned down in Washington DC, less than two blocks from the White House, in what the city’s mayor has called a “targeted shooting”
Police said a lone suspect opened fire on two National Guard members from West Virginia on Wednesday afternoon, before being subdued by other National Guard nearby who had heard the gvnfire.
US President Donald Trump, who was in Florida at the time, said the alleged gvnman was an Afghan national who entered the US in September 2021.
He vowed that his administration would ensure the suspect “pays the steepest possible price” for “an act of evil, an act of ha.tred and an act of te.rror”.
The Department of Homeland Security named the suspect in a press release as Rahmanullah Lakamal, “a cr!minal alien from Afghanistan”. His immigration status is unclear.
Tens of thousands of Afghans entered the US under special immigration protections following the chaotic US withdrawal from that country in 2021 under former President Joe Biden.
“We must now re-examine every alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden,” said Trump in a live address on Wednesday night.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services said it had halted processing of all Afghan immigration requests pending a review of vetting protocols.
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