National Guardsman shot in DC is ‘hanging on’ as family calls for prayer: lawmaker

The West Virginia Nationwide Guardsman who’s in important situation after being shot this week in Washington, D.C., is “hanging in there,” a congressman instructed “FOX & Associates Weekend,” including that his household is asking for prayers.

Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., stated Saturday that the household of 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe is “dedicated to service.”

“His father is a deputy sheriff within the county subsequent to mine and Andy needed to comply with in these footsteps and serve his nation as a Nationwide Guard,” Moore instructed FOX & Associates Weekend.

“Andy is hanging in there. And he is a fighter and his household has instructed me again and again that he is a fighter,” Moore added. ‘However above all, they need everybody to maintain praying. I imagine within the energy of prayer and I can promise you that his mother and father imagine within the energy of prayer… Please preserve praying.”

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Andrew Wolfe, 24, deployment, is hanging in there after he was shot in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., stated on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. (Anthony Peltier/AP; Public Prosecution Service by way of AP)

West Virginia Nationwide Guard member Sarah Beckstrom died Wednesday after the taking pictures within the nation’s capital.

The alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, faces a number of prices, together with one cost of first-degree homicide and two prices of assault with intent to kill whereas armed. Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi stated the Justice Division will search the loss of life penalty in opposition to the suspect.

Beckstrom and Wolfe are members of the West Virginia Nationwide Guard, which was deployed to the nation’s capital to deal with crime within the metropolis following an govt order from President Donald Trump earlier this yr.

ALLEGED DC SHOOTER ENTERED US UNDER AFGHAN RESETTLEMENT PUSH MAYORKAS SIN THAT WOULD BE DONE ‘QUICKLY AND SAFELY’

Folks collect for a vigil in honor of Nationwide Guard member Sarah Beckstrom in Webster Springs, W.Va., on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (Kathleen Batten/AP)

Lakanwal entered the US following the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 below the Biden administration. Lakanwal arrived within the US a month later below ‘Operation Allies Welcome’.

“The president is taking the correct step by re-investigating these people. However in my view, he ought to by no means have been right here. He ought to by no means have been on this nation to start with,” Moore stated Saturday. “We had over 80,000 Afghan nationals in the US, we do not know these folks. We do not know who they’re.”

“Terrorists have come to the US earlier than. That is the primary time I can keep in mind the American authorities bringing a terrorist into our nation, into the US,” he added. “After we had 13 of our service members killed at Abbey Gate, that continued failed coverage solely value us one other American life, by the hands of the Biden administration. We should not be on this place to start with, and a ravishing younger girl from West Virginia misplaced her life due to this failed coverage of Joe Biden.”

Folks collect for a vigil in Webster Springs, W.Va., on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, to honor Nationwide Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, considered one of two Nationwide Guard members shot in Washington, DC, this week. (Kathleen Batten/AP)

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Neighborhood members in Webster Springs, West Virginia, gathered for a vigil for Beckstrom and Wolfe on Friday night.

Landon Mion, Stephen Sorace and Brooke Singhman of Fox Information contributed to this report.