President Donald Trump announced Beckstrom’s death during a call with service members. “She’s just passed away,” he said of Specialist Beckstrom, who enlisted in the West Virginia National Guard in June 2023. “She’s no longer with us. She’s looking down at us right now.”

National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom died after being shot in an ambush by an Afghan national near the White House, a shooting that drew claims from his administration of Biden-era immigration vetting failures and prompted a sweeping review of asylum cases.

The West Virginia National Guard members are said to be in a critical condition after the shooting on Wednesday

Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old National Guard member who was fatally shot while on patrol in Washington D.C. this week, had mixed feelings about her deployment to the nation’s capital,

The National Guard is honoring 20-year-old specialist Sarah Beckstrom as a hero, calling her killing in Washington, D.C., a devastating loss.

The father of slain West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom noted in a Thursday Facebook post that his daughter had "passed to glory"