WASHINGTON (AP) — An Afghan national who worked with the CIA in his native country and immigrated to the U.S. in 2021 drove from Washington state to the nation's capital where he shot two West Virginia deployed in Washington, D.C., U.S. officials said Thursday.

The suspect had worked in a special CIA-backed Afghan Army unit before , according to two sources who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, and #AfghanEvac, a group that helps resettle Afghans who assisted the U.S. during the two-decade war.

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, declined to provide a motive for Wednesday afternoon's which occurred just blocks from the White House. The presence of troops in the nation’s capital and other cities arou

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