WASHINGTON ¨C A national guard member died on Thursday after being shot near the White House in an ambush that investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national, an attack President Donald Trump blamed on Biden-era immigration vetting failures as he ordered a sweeping review of asylum cases.
Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died of her wounds and her fellow guardsman Andrew Wolfe, 24, was ¡°fighting for his life,¡± Trump said, as investigators conducted what officials said was a terrorism probe after Wednesday¡¯s shooting.
The FBI searched multiple properties in a widening investigation, including a home in Washington state linked to the suspect, who officials said was part of a CIA-backed unit in Afghanistan before coming to the U.S. in 2021 under a resettlement program.
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