The ex-boyfriend of Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member who was fatally shot near the White House, said his former partner described aspects of her deployment to Washington, D.C., that rendered her presence there “pointless.”“She wanted to make a difference,” Adam Carr told CNN’s Gabe Cohen. Andrew Wolfe, 24, was shot by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, on Wednesday in what’s been called an “ambush-style” attack. This combo from photos provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, show National Guard members, from left, Staff Sgt. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe shooting happened amid a months-long troop deployment ordered by President Donald Trump in August to assist in patrols. “She was like ‘people spit towards us, cuss at us, throw things at us, and we can’t do nothing.’ She couldn’t detain nobody.
