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Staph

(6,446 posts)
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:20 PM Thursday

Sarah Beckstrom, WV National Guard shooting victim, is not expected to survive.

I apologize that I can only find this information on Facebook.

The father of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has now revealed that doctors do not expect her to survive her injuries. Speaking from her bedside, Gary Beckstrom said his daughter has a mortal wound and that recovery is not possible. Beckstrom said he is holding her hand as she fights for her life.

Sarah Beckstrom, just twenty years old, was ambushed alongside twenty four year old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe of the West Virginia National Guard. Both were shot in Washington, D.C. only 800 yards from the White House. Wolfe remains in critical condition.
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Beckstrom’s father said the family is preparing for the worst and that they are praying for a miracle. The severity of both soldiers’ injuries continues to shape how charges will proceed in federal court.



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Sarah Beckstrom, WV National Guard shooting victim, is not expected to survive. (Original Post) Staph Thursday OP
;-( elleng Thursday #1
Exactly what Trump wanted. RandySF Thursday #2
His Reichstag Fire Moment COL Mustard Thursday #10
It's on Traitor... he gave the Shooter Asylum. Cha Thursday #12
He ALSO put those people out on the streets WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE LEGALLY BEEN. Volaris Thursday #14
Yes, It's entirely The Traitor's Fault.. and All those Cha Thursday #16
:( sakabatou Thursday #3
Just awful. callous taoboy Thursday #4
Damn MustLoveBeagles Thursday #5
How very sad. milestogo Thursday #6
We can do better than Justinthenickofcrime on Facebook, esp since they got this info from the New York Times. WhiskeyGrinder Thursday #7
Thanks! Staph Thursday #8
Another victim of Trump's Fifth Avenue. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Thursday #9
:( nycbos Thursday #11
This is 100% on Trump, Stephen Miller, Hog's Breath, Noem, and Bondi. She should have been at home. Botany Thursday #13
Trump might as well been the one who pulled the trigger. Emile Thursday #15

Volaris

(11,292 posts)
14. He ALSO put those people out on the streets WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE LEGALLY BEEN.
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 04:52 PM
Thursday

If, AT ANY POINT, he had done as the Constitution and the other Branches ORDERED him to do, this wouldn't have happened.

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,061 posts)
7. We can do better than Justinthenickofcrime on Facebook, esp since they got this info from the New York Times.
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:50 PM
Thursday
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/national-guard-shooting-andrew-wolfe-sarah-beckstrom.html

https://archive.ph/lVS29

Two members of the West Virginia National Guard remained in critical condition in a hospital on Thursday, officials said, a day after they were ambushed just a few blocks from the White House.

(snip)

Both had been deployed to Washington since August, when President Trump ordered troops to the capital as part of what his administration described as a crackdown on crime.

“All we need right now are prayers for my son,” a man at Sergeant Wolfe’s family home told a reporter. He declined to speak more.

Specialist Beckstrom’s father said his daughter was unlikely to recover. “I’m holding her hand right now,” Gary Beckstrom said when reached by phone. “She has a mortal wound. It’s not going to be a recovery.” He declined to speak further.

Staph

(6,446 posts)
8. Thanks!
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:54 PM
Thursday

The Facebook post was the first place I saw the report, and I wanted to get the word out fast. And I don't have a subscription to the New York Times!


Botany

(76,050 posts)
13. This is 100% on Trump, Stephen Miller, Hog's Breath, Noem, and Bondi. She should have been at home.
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 04:47 PM
Thursday

There was zero need for her or any National Guard Members to be there or anyplace else and
besides it was illegal too. "Posse comitatus" has two meanings: the Posse Comitatus Act, a U.S. law that prohibits the use of federal military for domestic law enforcement unless authorized by Congress, and the historical legal concept of "the power of the county", which is the authority of a sheriff to call citizens for assistance.


She should have been @ home in West Virginia for the Holidays not in Washington D.C. where
some kind of Jack Wagon saw her and her uniform as something to lash out @ to make the
devils in his brain to be quiet.

Is Trump so sick that he will go to her funeral?

Both of the W.V. Guardsmen had been sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot.

https://www.newsweek.com/dc-national-guard-shooting-sarah-beckstrom-mortal-wound-11122860

Congress needs to do its job and remove the madman in power now.

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