Martinsburg, West Virginia (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that US Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, one of the National Guard members shot in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, has died.

“Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023 outstanding in every way. She’s just passed away,” Trump said in a Thanksgiving call to service members.

The death of Beckstrom, 20, comes after she and US Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, were injured in an “ambush style” shooting just blocks away from the White House on Thanksgiving Eve.

The two members were called to the nation’s capital in August as National Guard troops from multiple states responded to Trump’s surge of federal l

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