{"id":323644,"date":"2025-11-27T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323644"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:18:06","slug":"two-west-virginia-guardsmen-shot-in-d-c-ambush-near-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323644","title":{"rendered":"Two West Virginia Guardsmen Shot in D.C. Ambush Near White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The attack occurred Wednesday afternoon near Farragut Square Park, where West Virginia Guardsmen were patrolling to deter crime as part of President Trump&#8217;s deployment to Washington, D.C. Authorities identified 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal as the suspect, who entered the U.S. in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome and is now in custody after being wounded. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"875\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6uCPLhWsAABlU2-875x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-323648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6uCPLhWsAABlU2-875x1024.jpeg 875w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6uCPLhWsAABlU2-256x300.jpeg 256w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6uCPLhWsAABlU2-768x898.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6uCPLhWsAABlU2-1313x1536.jpeg 1313w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6uCPLhWsAABlU2.jpeg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The FBI is investigating as potential terrorism with no confirmed motive; President Trump condemned the act while leaders from both parties expressed support for the victims. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2-1024x711.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-323645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2-1024x711.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2.png 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Donald Trump posts on Twitter\/X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to send 500 more Guardsmen to bolster security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is investigating as potential terrorism with no confirmed motive; President Trump condemned the act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":323649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[921,7862,1983],"tags":[11,18486],"class_list":["post-323644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-donald-trump","category-washington-dc","tag-usa","tag-white-house"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323650,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323644\/revisions\/323650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}