The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members will face first-degree murder charges for the Wednesday attack, U.S. officials said today.

Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, said that there will be other charges as well against 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who she said ambushed the National Guardsmen from West Virginia near the White House Wednesday afternoon.

In a Thanksgiving call with U.S. military service members on Thursday, President Donald Trump called the shootings a “terrorist attack” and officials have said they were conducting a terrorism probe into the shooting.

“What happened at that crime is unmistakable. It is a premeditated murder,” Pirro told the “Fox and Friends” program. “We are upgrading the initial charges of assault to murder in the fi

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