A brazen, close-range shooting last week of two young National Guard members doing routine patrols outside of a Metro station in Washington has left communities in West Virginia in mourning and many around the country searching for answers.

Spec. Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old who joined the Guard two years ago after graduating from high school in Webster County, West Virginia, died on Thanksgiving in a hospital bed with her parents by her side. Her colleague and friend, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, is still hospitalized in serious condition, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Monday.

“Andrew is fighting for his life,” and “he has a chance to make it,” President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday aboard Air Force One. “His parents are unbelievably great people, highly religious people,

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