{"id":325071,"date":"2025-11-29T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=325071"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:01:04","slug":"army-specialist-sarah-beckstrom-killed-in-ambush-near-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=325071","title":{"rendered":"Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom Killed in Ambush Near White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beckstrom from Summersville, West Virginia, and Air Force Staff Sgt. Wolfe from Martinsburg died or were wounded in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Two West Virginia Guardsmen Shot in D.C. Ambush Near White House\">targeted attack Tuesday evening near Farragut Square<\/a>, hours after they were sworn in with the West Virginia National Guard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal who entered the U.S. in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, faces first-degree murder charges that could lead to the death penalty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beckstrom&#8217;s family and friends recall her as a warm high school honors graduate; a somber motorcade carried her from the hospital on Thanksgiving evening as security measures tightened in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal who entered the U.S. in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"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":[35,921],"tags":[18902,11,18903],"class_list":["post-325071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-sarah-beckstrom","tag-usa","tag-west-virginia-national-guard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325071","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=325071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325072,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325071\/revisions\/325072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}