{"id":173373,"date":"2025-11-27T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-2-national-guard-members-in-critical-condition-after-potential-terrorist-shooting-in-d-c-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:15:27","slug":"live-updates-2-national-guard-members-in-critical-condition-after-potential-terrorist-shooting-in-d-c-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-2-national-guard-members-in-critical-condition-after-potential-terrorist-shooting-in-d-c-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: 2 National Guard members in critical condition after potential 'terrorist' shooting in D.C. – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning Rundown: What we know about the D.C. shooting, celebrating Thanksgiving in fire-hit L.A., and one town’s ‘Stranger Things’ boost<\/a><\/span><\/use><\/svg><\/a>
The suspect, an Afghan national, was also shot during the attack on Wednesday.
About 2,100 National Guard troops were in the nation’s capital when two of them were shot yesterday \u2014 but a legal challenge over their presence is ongoing and the deployment is mired in controversy.
The National Guard was sent into Washington in August, as part of what President Donald Trump calls an ongoing campaign to reduce levels of violent crime in big cities. The two soldiers shot yesterday were part of West Virginia’s National Guard.
This involved the guard taking over the running of the local police department and the deployment was extended to February<\/a>.
The move followed similar deployments in other cities \u2014 mostly racially diverse, Democrat-voting urban centers \u2014 starting with Los Angeles in June and moving to Memphis, Tennessee, and Portland, Oregon.
However, a federal judge last week ruled <\/a>that the D.C. military takeover was illegal and intruded on local law enforcement officials\u2019 authority. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb put the order on hold to allow an appeal.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser welcomed the ruling and she wanted the troops out of the city.
The federal government has until Dec. 11 to appeal the ruling.
A U.S-based nonprofit that helps resettle Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the long American military operation in Afghanistan has warned it shouldn’t be used to undermine all Afghans.
AfghanEvac, which works with 250 different groups, said in a statement on X<\/a>: “We reject and condemn anyone who uses, or seeks to use, violence, and we stand with every American who is horrified and saddened by this crime.
The group then added: “This individual’s isolated and and violent act shouldn’t be used as an excuse to define or diminish an entire community.”
The suspect, who was also shot, has been identified by four senior law enforcement sources as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national. A family member has told NBC News that he served alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump addressed the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., which officials described as a targeted attack. Trump stated that the Department of Homeland Security is confident that the suspect in custody is a \u201cforeigner\u201d who entered the United States from Afghanistan.
<\/span>Law enforcement officials visit the crime scene of a shooting in downtown Washington, D.C. yesterday.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Drew Angerer \/ AFP – Getty Images<\/span>
President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0called for a \u201cre-examination\u201d of all Afghan nationals who came to the U.S. during the Biden administration, hours after an Afghan man was named\u00a0as the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members\u00a0<\/a>in Washington, D.C.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u00a0said on X<\/a>\u00a0that the suspect came to the U.S. in September 2021 under\u00a0Operation Allies Welcome<\/a>, a Biden-era program designed to help Afghans who assisted U.S. forces and were facing a Taliban takeover.
\u201cWe must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden,\u201d Trump said in an address Wednesday night in which he called the shooting an \u201cact of terror.\u201d
Read the full article here <\/em><\/strong><\/a>
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