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   From: deathpenalty@illegal.aliens   
      
   Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan national accused of shooting   
   two West Virginia National Guard members, killing one, in Washington,   
   D.C., has been formally charged with murder.   
      
   Lakanwal, of Bellingham, Washington, appeared before a judge remotely on   
   Tuesday from his hospital bed, where he is recovering from gunshot wounds   
   he suffered when another National Guard member shot him during the   
   incident.   
      
   Lakanwal was wearing a hospital gown and was lying in a hospital bed,   
   covered in a blanket, during the remote court appearance.   
      
   Through a Pashtu interpreter, Lakanwal was charged with one count of   
   murder, two counts of assault with the intent to kill, and one count of   
   possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.   
      
   Lakanwal pleaded not guilty to the charges through a court-appointed   
   attorney.   
      
   At one point during the hearing, Lakanwal, speaking in Pashtu, said   
   through the interpreter, "I cannot open my eyes, I have pain in my ear."   
      
   "This is a shocking crime that happened at about two in the afternoon, so   
   the beginning of rush hour the day before Thanksgiving," Ariel Dean, an   
   assistant U.S. attorney, said during the hearing.   
      
   Lakanwal is charged with shooting Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and U.S.   
   Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, members of the West Virginia   
   National Guard, who were "ambushed" while conducting "high visibility   
   patrols" on Nov. 25 just blocks from the White House, authorities said.   
      
   Beckstrom was killed and Wolfe was critically injured, authorities said.   
      
   New details of the attack emerged on Tuesday when authorities unsealed a   
   criminal complaint against Lakanwal, a married father of five children.   
      
   Lakanwal, according to the complaint, shot Beckstrom from behind and was   
   trying to reload after he was shot and just before he was subdued. An   
   autopsy by the Washington, D.C., Medical Examiner's Office determined that   
   Beckstrom was shot once in the back of the head, according to the   
   complaint.   
      
   Wolfe was also shot in the head during the attack, according to the   
   complaint.   
      
   Witnesses told investigators that as Beckstrom and Wolfe fell to the   
   ground after being shot, Lakanwal was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar," an   
   Arabic phrase meaning "God is great," according to the complaint.   
      
   Video recovered from the scene of the shooting allegedly shows Lakanwal   
   opening fire on the National Guard members after coming around a corner   
   "with his hands raised in a firing stance," according to the complaint.   
      
   The National Guard member who shot Lakanwal reported that it appeared the   
   suspect's firearm, a .357 Smith & Wesson revolver, was empty and he was   
   attempting to reload, according to the complaint. After Lakanwal was shot,   
   a witness and uniformed Secret Service officers subdued him and brought   
   him into custody, the complaint said.   
      
   D.C. Superior Court Judge Magistrate Judge Renee Raymond ruled that   
   Lakanwal be held without bond until at least Jan. 14.   
      
   'It is fairly clear that he [Lankanwal] came across the country 3,000   
   miles armed and with a specific purpose in mind," Raymond said during the   
   hearing. "There's video footage of him waiting in broad daylight, and that   
   upon seeing a contingent of law enforcement officers, including the slain   
   and injured National Guard persons, he went in their direction. He started   
   shooting at them."   
      
   Kill him.   
      
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   https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-dc-shooting-2-national-guard-members-   
   formally/story?id=128047008   
      
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