The suspect in Wednesday&#8217;s horrific shooting in Washington, D.C., is expected to survive according to a local law enforcement official.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, opened fire on National Guard soldiers just blocks from the White House and struck two of them, one fatally. Another soldier returned fire, injuring and then subduing Lakanwal at the scene. An unnamed law enforcement official told <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-news/rahmanullah-lakanwal-expected-to-survive-after-dc-national-guard-shooting/">The New York Post</a> that the Afghan national had undergone surgery but was expected to make a full recovery.
&#8220;I think the guy’s going to live. Nobody’s going to be able to say anything and he’s going to stand trial,&#8221; the official said, adding, &#8220;I know that he underwent surgery the night it happened.&#8221;
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Meanwhile, SPC Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia has succumbed to her injuries — and Andrew Wolfe, the other National Guardsman who was shot, continues to fight for his life. Following the news that Beckstrom had died, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced that the charges against Lakanwal had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charges-upgraded-against-afghan-shooting-suspect-after-national-guard-soldier-dies">upgraded</a> to include first-degree murder.
&#8220;There are certainly many more charges to come, but we are upgrading the initial charges of assault to murder in the first degree,&#8221; Pirro said. &#8220;It is a premeditated murder. There was an ambush with a gun toward people who didn’t know what was coming.&#8221;
President Donald Trump, upon learning that Lakanwal was an Afghan national who entered the United States  in 2021 following former President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, took immediate action and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-blistering-thanksgiving-post-trump-promises-to-stop-migration-from-all-third-world-countries">declared a halt</a> to &#8220;migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover.&#8221;
Trump also called for a review of the vetting process for those who entered the United States during and after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and promised that his administration would &#8220;deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.&#8221;

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National Guard Shooting Suspect Expected To Survive

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Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), attempted to blame President Donald Trump for the deadly shooting that took place in Washington, D.C., the day before Thanksgiving.
The suspect is an Afghan national, let into the United States during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, who opened fire on National Guard troops in the nation&#8217;s capital. One, SPC. Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, has died as a result of her injuries. But according to Wasserman Schultz, Trump was to blame for the horrific ambush attack.
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Rep Wasserman-Schultz attempts to blame Trump for NG shoot*ng, cites deployments in cities and &#8220;gun violence” as causes:
“The president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies&#8230;and it’s pretty disgusting.&#8221;
This is what they’re actually going with here. Sick. <a href="https://t.co/BX5TAd367V">pic.twitter.com/BX5TAd367V</a>
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Wasserman Schultz, responding to President Trump&#8217;s plan to go back and revisit the vetting process for the Afghan nationals who were brought into the United States as refugees, noted that in order for someone to have slipped through the cracks, there had to have been failures at a number of levels.
&#8220;We need to make sure that we have tight and appropriate and proper vetting. If there were gaps that admitted this person, they would have failed over multiple levels of gaps, and this individual was trusted enough to participate in assisting our military during the war in Afghanistan,&#8221; Wasserman Schultz said.
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She then pivoted to blame Trump, adding, &#8220;The president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies. We need to make sure that we don&#8217;t have our military deployed in our cities, handling law enforcement responsibilities, and we need to make sure that we address gun violence. We certainly need to make sure that we always have the proper and appropriate and tight vetting processes and those should be reviewed, but it&#8217;s never the president&#8217;s fault or his policies when it comes to his reaction, and it’s pretty disgusting.&#8221;
What Wasserman Schultz failed to acknowledge, however, was the fact that people like Pentagon spokesman and Army Ranger veteran <a href="https://x.com/Surabees/status/1994030582116876620">Sean Parnell</a> had sounded the alarm even at the time, warning that some Afghans who had been trusted and had worked with American troops on the ground had betrayed them when it mattered.

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Former DNC Chair Blames Trump For National Guard Shooting

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The father of Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two National Guard members allegedly shot by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, said that she has a “mortal wound” and is not expected to survive.
“I’m holding her hand right now,” Gary Beckstrom said. “She has a mortal wound. It’s not going to be a recovery.”
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🚨Sad news: The father of 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom from the WV National Guard says her death is all but certain. &quot;She has a mortal wound. It&#39;s not going to be a recovery.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/IJMIOYQ6th">pic.twitter.com/IJMIOYQ6th</a>
&mdash; Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) <a href="https://twitter.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1994123081456209987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Beckstrom, 20, an Army Specialist, had volunteered to work the Thanksgiving holiday so that her fellow soldiers could go home to their families, Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Thursday.
“She volunteered to be there on Thanksgiving, working today,” Bondi said. “She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families. Yet, now, their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives.”
 “The accused gunman had been part of an Afghan &#8216;partner force&#8217; trained and supported by the C.I.A. in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said. An Afghan intelligence official said the suspect had served in one of what were known as Zero Units, Afghan paramilitary forces trained to target the Taliban and that were accused of widespread killings of civilians,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/27/us/national-guard-shooting-dc">reported</a>.
On Thursday, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro made it clear that if either Beckstrom or Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, the other Guard member who was shot, did not survive, the federal government would seek charges of murder in the first degree against the suspect, making him eligible for the death penalty.
Speaking at a press conference Thursday morning, Pirro stated,
“As we stand here today, the charges that are appropriate right now are three counts of assault with intent to kill while armed, a violation of DC code 22–401 and DC code 22–4502. He will also be charged  possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. He faces 15 years under assault with the intent to kill. We intend to continue monitoring what the charges will be, depending upon the well-being of the guardsmen. We are praying that they survive and that the highest charge will not have to be murder in the first degree.”
“But make no mistake,” she declared. “If they do not, that will certainly be the charge: murder in the first degree. The Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is committed to a thorough and impartial investigation where we will hold this perpetrator accountable under the full weight of the law.”

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‘I’m Holding Her Hand Right Now’: Father Of Female National Guard Member Says She Won’t Survive

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In the wake of the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro made it clear that if either one of the two — who are currently in critical condition — do not survive, the federal government will seek charges of murder in the first degree against the suspect, making him eligible for the death penalty.
Speaking at a press conference Thursday morning, Pirro stated, “We’re working very closely with our partners, especially DHS and the FBI, to review his immigration history and the vetting process itself. What we know about him is that he drove his vehicle across the country from the state of Washington with the intended target of coming to our nation’s capital.”
“As we stand here today, the charges that are appropriate right now are three counts of assault with intent to kill while armed, a violation of DC code 22–401 and DC code 22–4502,” she continued. “He will also be charged with possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. He faces 15 years under assault with the intent to kill. We intend to continue monitoring what the charges will be, depending upon the well-being of the guardsmen. We are praying that they survive and that the highest charge will not have to be murder in the first degree.”
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“But make no mistake,” she declared. “If they do not, that will certainly be the charge: murder in the first degree. The Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is committed to a thorough and impartial investigation where we will hold this perpetrator accountable under the full weight of the law.”
“Our nation’s capital should not and must not be a place where evil comes to commit violence, whatever their cause or motive may be,” she asserted. “We should not have to live in fear in the nation’s capital, especially by one who came here from a foreign country through a process that was so absurd that he came through and released into this country as many were, knowing virtually nothing about his vetting. This is what happens in this country when people are allowed in who are not properly vetted.”
She offered a tribute to law enforcement: “These guardsmen and all who were here to protect the district are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one. They are the ones who stand for law and order. This was not just an attack. It was a direct challenge to law and order in our nation’s capital and the individual will be made fully accountable.”
“Though it seems that we have been here before, under President Trump make no mistake and the attorney general: We will not allow this to be normalized. It will be confronted, condemned and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Now my message to the individual who committed these acts is you picked the wrong target, the wrong city and the wrong country and you will be sorry for the violence and the evil that you perpetrated in our nation’s capital,” she concluded.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, MPD Chief Pamela Smith, And DC Mayor Bowser Discuss Arrests In Murder Of Congressional Intern

Suspect In National Guard Shootings Could Receive Death Penalty: U.S. Attorney Pirro

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The Biden administration justified bringing the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, over to the United States because he had worked with U.S. government entities, including the CIA, in Afghanistan, according to CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
Lakanwal, 29, who entered the U.S. as part of the Biden administration&#8217;s Operation Allies Welcome, allegedly shot the National Guard members only blocks from the White House, leaving them in critical condition.
“In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” Ratcliffe told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-dc-national-guardsmen-shooting-suspect-what-know-about-afghan-national-rahmanullah-lakanwal">Fox News Digital</a>.
On September 3, 2021, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas <a href="applewebdata://081DAEB6-AD7B-4068-B92F-3A46194A02BF/v">introduced</a> Operation Allies Welcome, saying it was “the ongoing effort to bring Americans home, and to bring vulnerable Afghans to the United States and support their resettlement.  The President of the United States has the authority to designate a federal agency to lead a federal response.  Last Friday, he designated the Department of Homeland Security as the lead federal agency to coordinate Operation Allies Welcome to help ensure unity of effort, clear roles and responsibilities, synchronized priorities, and effective coordination across the federal government.”
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“The federal government has been focused on the screening and vetting of individuals evacuated from Afghanistan,” he continued. “The Department of Homeland Security remains ever vigilant against attempts by foreign adversaries to exploit vulnerable populations as a means of gaining access to the U.S. for nefarious purposes.  Consequently, as part of a collaborative, interagency effort that includes DHS, the Departments of Defense and State, the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, and other agencies, the Federal Government has established a robust screening and vetting architecture with the dual goals of protecting the homeland and providing protections for vulnerable Afghans.”
“We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this Nation,” he stated. “We have an obligation to do so in a way that protects our national security and preserves public safety.”

John Ratcliffe faces Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing

National Guardsmen Shooting Suspect Worked With The CIA, Agency Head Says

Two National Guard troops were shot near the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
Both of the troops targeted in the attack are from West Virginia and were in uniform when they were shot. A senior U.S. official told NBC News that both of the National Guardsmen were shot in the head, and the suspect reportedly used a handgun.
The suspected gunman was identified as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who came to the United States during the Biden administration&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from the country in 2021. The male suspect was critically wounded and taken into custody. The FBI will reportedly investigate the shooting as an act of terrorism.
Lakanwal was allowed to enter the United States under Operation Allies Welcome, and he settled in Bellingham, Washington.
A little over an hour after the shooting, West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said that both of the National Guard troops had died, but he later walked back his statement and said that there were &#8220;conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members,&#8221; adding that he &#8220;will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information.&#8221;
President Donald Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115617866419112089">said</a> that both of the troops were &#8220;critically wounded&#8221; and were being treated &#8220;in two separate hospitals.&#8221;
&#8220;The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price. God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People. I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!&#8221; Trump said.
The president was not at the White House at the time of the shooting as he traveled to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth <a href="https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/1993791269580259545">said</a> that the shooting was &#8220;a cowardly, dastardly act targeting the best of America, heroes willing to serve in Washington, D.C.&#8221; He added that President Trump has requested that 500 additional National Guardsmen be deployed to the capital following the shooting.
&#8220;This will only stiffen our resolve to ensure that we make Washington, D.C., safe and beautiful,&#8221; Hegseth said.
The suspected shooter acted alone, according to a D.C. police official who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/26/us/national-guard-shooting-dc/85decc03-f7f2-595f-a32d-6426f61ee8a7?smid=url-share">spoke</a> to The New York Times. Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser called the attack on National Guardsmen a &#8220;targeted shooting.&#8221;
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed that National Guardsmen had been shot, <a href="https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1993771280898916498">saying</a>, &#8220;Please join me in praying for the two National Guardsmen who were just shot moments ago in Washington D.C. @DHSgov is working with local law enforcement to gather more information.&#8221;
Video taken near the Farragut West metro station showed a massive police presence following the shooting.
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BREAKING — massive police and National Guard presence at Farragut West metro station. A block from White House. <a href="https://t.co/Hz2wjjWa6d">pic.twitter.com/Hz2wjjWa6d</a>
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Over 2,300 National Guard troops have been deployed to D.C. by Trump as he seeks to address violent crime in the nation&#8217;s capital. Trump&#8217;s National Guard deployment in D.C. and other cities around the country has been met with backlash from the Left.
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Two National Guard Troops Shot Near White House, Afghan National In Custody

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If you didn&#8217;t see Tucker Carlson&#8217;s recent segment on Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old man who nearly assassinated Donald Trump live on national television during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year, there are a few important revelations you should know about.
The first revelation — which isn&#8217;t remotely controversial — is that the FBI has clearly been hiding relevant information about Thomas Crooks from the general public. And by itself, that&#8217;s a national scandal that justifies completely gutting the FBI, from the highest levels on down. Even if you firmly believe that Thomas Crooks was a lone gunman, and even if you believe that the Secret Service was merely incompetent (as opposed to complicit) — the fact remains, our government has been withholding important details about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump&#8217;s life, without any justification whatsoever.
We should not have to rely on Tucker Carlson, or any podcaster, to tell us that Thomas Crooks left a lengthy trail of comments on YouTube, in which he openly called for political violence for several years.
These calls were so overt, and so disturbing, that one user wrote in response to Crooks:
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<blockquote>You&#8217;re on YouTube threatening to shoot government officials. I sure hope the FBI is monitoring social media for violent nutcases.</blockquote>
It&#8217;s almost too on-the-nose to be real. But that comment is still available on YouTube, to this day. Thomas Crooks&#8217; account has been suspended, and all of his comments have been hidden. They&#8217;re only accessible using the Internet archive website. But the replies are still there. And yet, more than a year after the assassination attempt in Butler, we have to rely on Tucker Carlson to tell us about any of this. That is completely, overwhelmingly, unequivocally unacceptable. It shouldn’t fall to anyone in the media to tell us what Thomas Crooks was saying online — and how people were reacting to his comments.
We also shouldn&#8217;t have to rely on podcasters to tell us that Thomas Crooks decided, sometime during the COVID lockdowns, to completely reverse his political views, and to begin openly attacking Donald Trump and his administration on social media. And we certainly shouldn&#8217;t have to rely on podcasters to tell us that Crooks was in contact with a mysterious person — who remains unidentified, beyond the online alias &#8220;Willy Tepes&#8221; — who openly encouraged Crooks to commit acts of violence.
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At one point, Willy Tepes wrote to Crooks, 
<blockquote>&#8230;authority obviously comes from the barrel of a gun. We have more guns than they do. There is no way we can avoid a war at this point, so you better just get used to the idea.</blockquote>
In common parlance, this is known as &#8220;fed posting.&#8221; Willy Tepes is almost being too obvious about it. He understands that Thomas Crooks is a radical who&#8217;s prone to violence. He sees that Crooks is posting about acts of violence against political officials — and that Crooks wrote, at one point, that even the White House could be overwhelmed if enough Americans took up arms. Willy Tepes is aware of all this. And instead of expressing concern, he encourages Crooks to go to war.
Is it possible that this is just some random internet troll? Of course it is. It&#8217;s also possible that &#8220;Willy Tepes&#8221; was working with a government agency or a terror cell — either in this country or some other country — to groom potential assassins. In fact, given how weird &#8220;Willy&#8217;s&#8221; comments were — and to be clear, he replied to Crooks multiple times — it seems very likely that he was trying to groom Thomas Crooks. So what has the FBI done to investigate Willy Tepes? What have they done to figure out his identity? Why is Tucker’s show the first time — literally, the first time — that anyone in this country has heard the name &#8220;Willy Tepes&#8221;?
That is inexcusable, for about a million different reasons. It&#8217;s not the FBI&#8217;s job to determine what information is worth sharing to the public, or what information they deem is &#8220;important.&#8221; When it comes to the near-assassination of the leading presidential candidate, no detail is irrelevant. If Thomas Crooks went bowling every week, we should know that. If Thomas Crooks loved the film &#8220;Good Will Hunting,&#8221; we should know that. And certainly, if he was in regular communication with an anonymous person who sounded a lot like a fed, we should know that, too. At the very least we should know something about this guy. But if the feds had their way, we would know nothing at all. And that’s what we knew — nothing — until this week.
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And on top of that, beyond the transparency issues, it would obviously help the government&#8217;s investigation to raise awareness about these posts. Maybe someone, somewhere, knows who &#8220;Willy Tepes&#8221; is. And as long as Willy Tepes isn&#8217;t the alias for a CIA agent or something like that, then you&#8217;d think your government would want someone to come forward and identify him immediately. But that&#8217;s not possible if they bury his identity, and all information about him.
And then there&#8217;s the fact that Crooks&#8217;s PayPal account, for one reason or another, uses the name of an ex-FBI agent who worked in Pennsylvania, and who investigated the Las Vegas mass shooting — the one where no motive has ever been established. What exactly is going on there? We have no idea, because again, this is the first time anyone&#8217;s hearing about any of this. Our government — under both the Biden administration and the Trump administration — made the conscious decision to hide all of this information from us. The only reason we&#8217;re hearing about it now is that a random source got in contact with Tucker Carlson&#8217;s team, and tipped him off to Crooks&#8217; online history. And because this information remains uncontested by the FBI, several days after Tucker Carlson&#8217;s broadcast, we can assume it&#8217;s all true.
So let&#8217;s pause for a minute here, and zoom out. Let&#8217;s really think about what&#8217;s happened here. This is the official narrative. Last summer, Thomas Crooks — supposedly an untrained 20-year-old with an angry, inconsistent social media history — managed to outwit the Secret Service and gain access to a roof 500 feet away from Donald Trump. 
And he wasn&#8217;t particularly subtle about it. As you can see here, he was clearly visible, running along the rooftop as Trump spoke.
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CRAZY. This video is from James Copenhaver &#8211; one of the bystanders who was shot twice and critically wounded during the assassination attempt against Trump. It CLEARLY shows Crooks&#8217; head scurrying on the rooftop moments before the shooting.
Takeaway: Secret Service BLEW IT and… <a href="https://t.co/1rP6083ZFH">pic.twitter.com/1rP6083ZFH</a>
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) <a href="https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1818701467190165566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But the Secret Service didn&#8217;t notice him — even though random attendees in the crowd were suspicious, and notified law enforcement. Somehow the Secret Service didn&#8217;t have anyone on the roof — because it was too &#8220;sloped&#8221; — and somehow the Secret Service counter-snipers couldn&#8217;t see any of this. They only shot Thomas Crooks after he unloaded several shots at Donald Trump, including a shot that hit Trump in the head. And coincidentally enough, the rally in Butler was the first time that the Secret Service had deployed counter-snipers to a Trump rally during the 2024 campaign season. Yes, the Secret Service snipers made their debut at the Butler rally — just in time to neutralize Thomas Crooks after he got his shots off. 
So in a very tidy fashion, Thomas Crooks was quickly erased from the picture. No one could question him. No one could put him on trial. And then a funny thing happened. No one really investigated Thomas Crooks. No one told us anything about his social media posts, or his political views — beyond the claim that he was a Trump supporter, which was false. It took more than a year for us to learn that, in fact, Thomas Crooks was openly promising to commit violence on social media — and that someone was encouraging him to do so.
But the story gets even stranger from there. 
Less than 48 hours after Tucker&#8217;s reporting, out of nowhere, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/us-news/thomas-crooks-used-they-them-pronouns-had-obsession-with-violence-and-muscle-mommies-sources/">published</a> this exclusive information.
<blockquote>Thomas Crooks used they/them pronouns and posted threats of political violence and violent art on his secret social media accounts before he attempted to assassinate President Trump, according to sources who shared the suspected messages with The Post. &#8230; .Crooks had two possible accounts on DeviantArt, a site that hosts fan art and has become notorious for its community of furries — people who identify as anthropomorphized animal characters and/or are sexually attracted to them. One of the DeviantArt accounts linked to Crooks shared just one post, a repost of a towering, muscular female bodybuilder and a slight man in his underwear.</blockquote>
Separately, the Post&#8217;s Miranda Devine reported that Crooks, &#8220;had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads.&#8221;
This seems to be a clear case of yet another psychologically disturbed mass shooter — someone who had been indoctrinated into the LGBT cult — turning to violence. Which is not a particularly surprising development. As I&#8217;ve said repeatedly, the LGBT cult is the single greatest domestic terror threat this country faces. In just the past few years, trans-identifying terrorists have shot up multiple Christian churches and schools. &#8220;Non-binary&#8221; mass shooters have targeted high schools and bars. A Leftist living with a &#8220;furry&#8221; assassinated Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of people.
Put simply, trans extremism is an epidemic. And the pattern of trans and “non-binary” violence is not at all surprising, even though the media tries to cover it up. Any man who identifies as a woman or a “they/them” is mentally unstable by definition. It seems nearly certain that all of these people were on psychiatric meds and in some cases hormones. And there&#8217;s another common theme here as well, which is that all of these violent LGBT shooters all probably developed their “gender identity” from consuming hundreds of hours of porn. The gender stuff is the product of extreme nihilism and extreme perversion. A steady long term diet of pornography turns anyone into a nihilist pervert. It’s not a far leap to get from that to murderer.
That&#8217;s why it’s not exactly shocking to hear that Thomas Crooks was also a member of the &#8220;they/them&#8221; cult, who regularly consumed various degenerate forms of media. At this point, you almost expect the investigation to uncover something like this. Thomas Crooks is yet another violent LGBT-linked killer, to add to a very disturbing, and fast growing, list.
There were some concerns expressed by some commentators that perhaps this revelation was an intentional diversion. A targeted leak, intended to distract us from the investigation that Tucker Carlson just published. That does seem like something the FBI might try to do, but that’s not what happened in this case. Miranda Devine has made it clear that her source is the same as Tucker’s — the information didn&#8217;t come from the FBI. Devine also provided more information on the Willy Tepes character, who was first identified by Tucker Carlson. 
Here&#8217;s what Devine <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/opinion/fbi-secret-service-butchered-the-thomas-crooks-case-and-invited-conspiracies-we-deserve-the-truth/">wrote</a>.
<blockquote>One of the people Crooks interacted with online was &#8216;Willy Tepes,&#8217; a member of Norwegian neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement, which has since been designated a terrorist organization by the State Department. In one comment on Oct. 5, 2025, more than a year after Butler, Tepes commented to another user that he had been contacted by both Russian and American intelligence. &#8216;People who ask you to contact them when they just as easily could contact you, are Feds. This is how they avoid entrapment. Both American and Russian intelligence does this. I have chatted to both.&#8217; Tepes said.</blockquote>
There are only two possibilities here. The first possibility is that we&#8217;re seeing a monumental, unforgivable failure by the FBI — a degree of incompetence that&#8217;s simply staggering. Maybe they missed all of these chats. Or maybe they didn&#8217;t think they were relevant, and just never got around to releasing them. So they&#8217;re left to respond with pathetic &#8220;rapid response&#8221; press releases when Tucker Carlson and Miranda Devine publish investigative reports a year later. That&#8217;s the best-case scenario. That is the absolute, best-case scenario we&#8217;re dealing with.
The worst-case scenario is almost too dark to say out loud. But I&#8217;ll try my best. The worst-case scenario is that the FBI has been hiding all of this information about Thomas Crooks for the same reason that the Secret Service — supposedly the most elite protective force in the entire world — failed to secure that slightly-sloped roof 400 feet away from Donald Trump, with a direct line-of-sight to his head. The worst-case scenario is that the leadership of our intelligence agencies want Donald Trump dead. And if that&#8217;s the case, then there&#8217;s no reason to think they&#8217;re going to stop trying to kill him.
It&#8217;s not my job, or your job, to decide between these scenarios. It&#8217;s the job of our government, out of an abundance of transparency, to absolve itself completely of any responsibility in the attempt to murder Donald Trump. They should be telling us everything they know, even if they don&#8217;t think the information is relevant. But our government has not done so. And for that reason, it&#8217;s not insane or paranoid to assume the worst, or at least to consider it a very real possibility. For one reason or another, we aren’t being told the whole story, or even an incomplete story. And it’s way past time for us to ask one question: why?

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Police stopped a potential mass shooting on Monday when a 49-year-old man was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International after he allegedly threatened to &#8220;shoot up&#8221; the nation&#8217;s busiest airport before he drove there armed with a semiautomatic rifle.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said at a press conference that a major tragedy was &#8220;averted.&#8221; The mayor said the suspect is from Cartersville, Georgia, and is &#8220;mentally challenged.&#8221; Cartersville is located just over 50 miles northwest of the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport International Airport.
The suspect was identified as Billy Joe Cagle, a convicted felon, who said over a livestream video that he planned on shooting people at the airport, according to Atlanta Police Department Chief Darin Schierbaum. After family members saw Cagle&#8217;s video, they notified the Cartersville Police Department, which then notified the Atlanta Police Department. Cagle&#8217;s family also warned police that he was in possession of a firearm.
Just 14 minutes after Atlanta Police were notified of the threat, Cagle was arrested in the airport. Police also found a semiautomatic rifle in his vehicle, which was parked outside.
Airport security footage released by police at the press conference showed Cagle arriving at the airport at 9:29 a.m. and parking his Chevy flatbed pickup truck next to a terminal entrance. The suspect then entered the south domestic terminal, but was not armed when he walked into the airport.
&#8220;From video we will show you, he seemed to be very interested in the TSA check-in area, which you can see was heavily, heavily crowded with travelers,&#8221; Schierbaum said.
The security footage showed Cagle walking around the TSA check-in area with his phone in hand. Bodycam footage also released at the press conference show Atlanta Police Department officers confronting Cagle before taking him down to the ground and placing handcuffs on him. Schierbaum said that officers had to use two handcuffs to detain Cagle because of his size, adding that the suspect is 6&#8217;3 and 320 pounds. Cagle was taken into custody at 9:54 a.m., less than 30 minutes after he arrived at the airport.
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When authorities searched the suspect&#8217;s truck, they found a Springfield 5.56 Saint Victor AR-15 rifle with 27 rounds of ammunition.
&#8220;We did have a tragedy averted today,&#8221; the police chief said, adding that if the police officers had not stopped him at that time, he believes the suspect was planning on retrieving the rifle from his pickup truck and firing upon people in the crowded terminal.
&#8220;We&#8217;re here today briefing you on a success and not a tragedy because a family saw something and said something,&#8221; Schierbaum said.
Cagle faces charges of making terroristic threats, criminal attempt to commit aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The FBI is assisting local authorities as the investigation continues.
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A second illegal immigrant detainee died nearly a week after a shooter opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-facility-shooting-dallas-04fb992734fb0cd6760eccba6820665d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press.
Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, succumbed to his injuries after he was taken off life support, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) <a href="https://lulac.org/news/pr/LULAC_SHARES_A_MESSAGE_FROM_THE_FAMILY_OF_THE_LATEST_VICTIM_IN_THE_ATTACK_AT_THE_DALLAS_ICE_FACILITY/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. The illegal immigrant was shot, along with two others, on Wednesday by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-we-know-about-ice-shooter-joshua-jahn?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Here%E2%80%99s+What+We+Know+About+ICE+Shooter+Joshua+Jahn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Jahn</a>, 29, who intended to target ICE officers, <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/dallas/news/remarks-delivered-by-special-agent-in-charge-joseph-rothrock-at-a-press-conference-regarding-the-shooting-at-an-ice-facility-in-dallas">according</a> to the FBI.
Jahn, who later turned the gun on himself, left chilling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tragic-irony-federal-officials-say-dallas-shooter-wanted-to-kill-ice-agents-not-detainees?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Tragic+Irony%E2%80%99%3A+Federal+Officials+Say+Dallas+Shooter+Wanted+To+Kill+ICE+Agents%2C+Not+Detainees">notes</a> behind that revealed he hoped to inflict “terror” on the agents and that also read “yes, it was just me,” Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson said during a press conference Thursday.
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The shooter also wrote that he “intended to maximize lethality against” them and “to maximize property damage at the facility,” while hoping “to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the detainees and any other innocent people,” Larson said.
“It seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees or harm them. It’s clear from these notes that he was targeting ICE agents and ICE personnel. The tragic irony… is that it was a detainee who was killed and two other detainees that were injured when he fired,&#8221; Larson said.
Garcia-Hernández&#8217;s wife, Stephany Gauffeny, called her husband&#8217;s death &#8220;a senseless tragedy.&#8221;
&#8220;My husband Miguel was a good man, a loving father, and the provider for our family,&#8221; Gauffeny said in a statement shared by LULAC. &#8220;We had just bought our first home together, and he worked hard every single day to make sure our children had what they needed. His death is a senseless tragedy that has left our family shattered. I do not know how to explain to our children that their father is gone.&#8221;
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The first victim, later identified by <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/victim-active-shooter-attack-dallas-ice-field-office-identified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ICE</a> as Salvadoran national Norlan Guzmán-Fuentes, 37, died the day of the attack.
Guzmán-Fuentes snuck across the border illegally and later turned up in Palm Beach County, Florida, where he was arrested for battery, improper exhibit of a firearm or dangerous weapon, and criminal mischief, according to ICE. All of the charges were dropped except for the criminal mischief charge.
He was later arrested in 2020 in Arlington, Texas, for a DWI, according to ICE. He later bonded out of custody before ICE could get their hands on him.
His latest arrest was on Aug. 25, when Dallas police arrested him for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and an outstanding DWI warrant, ICE said. The assault charge was dismissed on Sept. 10.
On Sept. 24, ICE arrested him at the local jail and &#8220;upon arrival to the ERO Dallas Field Office, ICE officers encountered an active shooter at the facility, targeting immigration officials,&#8221; the agency said.
&#8220;Regretfully, Guzman was one the victims of this tragic incident which resulted in his death,&#8221; ICE said.
Dramatic surveillance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-shows-ice-agents-shielded-detainees-during-deadly-shooting?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Video+Shows+ICE+Agents+Shielded+Detainees+During+Deadly+Shooting">video</a> taken during the shooting showed ICE officers under fire offloading detainees from a van through a hallway to safety.
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“The evidence is clear that this was an intended assault on ICE personnel who come to work every day to do their job,” Marcos Charles, acting executive associate director for ICE’s enforcement and removal operations, said during Thursday’s presser detailing the officers&#8217; heroic conduct.
“Those ICE officers just showed the world who they really are: law enforcement officers who want the best for our country, that’s ICE integrity, courage, excellence. They were willing to put their lives on the line to pull detainees out of the transport van to get them to safety. They are heroes, and I hope the media has the integrity to shine a light on this story. Enough is enough with the harmful lies and rhetoric, and it has to stop,” he added.
The Dallas shooting was the latest attack against ICE agents and facilities. A group of leftist anarchists threw fireworks at an ICE facility just outside of Dallas in July to lure officers outside before opening fire, and shooting a police officer in the neck. Bratton Dean Wilkinson, a 36-year-old American citizen, showed up at the ICE facility in Dallas last month and announced that he was carrying a bomb in his backpack and flashed a “detonator” on his wrist, the agency said.
Attacks on ICE agents have increased 1,000% as they carry out President Donald Trump&#8217;s mass deportation efforts, <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/22/despite-1000-increase-assaults-ice-officers-governor-newsom-signs-unconstitutional">according</a> to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Three people were killed and eight were injured when an alleged U.S. veteran who claimed he was suffering from PTSD fired into a dockside North Carolina restaurant, killing three people and leaving at least one other person fighting for their life.
The suspect was named by the Southport Police Department as Nigel Max Edge, arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted first-degree murder, and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, with additional charges pending.
“We believe that this was a targeted location,” Southport Police Chief Todd Coring stated at a press conference. “He acted in what we call a ‘lone wolf.’ He acted alone. This is highly premeditated from what we are seeing at this time and we feel that there are no other threats to our community, that we do have someone in custody.&#8221;
He added that an active investigation is underway.
Coring continued that the suspect was identified as a combat veteran injured in the line of duty and said he suffered from PTSD.
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“On Saturday, September 27, 2025 at approximately 9:30 PM, members of the Southport Police Department were dispatched to calls of shots fired with multiple injuries at the American Fish Company, located at 150 Yacht Basin Dr, Southport, NC 28461,” the Southport, North Carolina, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cityofsouthportnc/posts/pfbid0BwvyoikCymScwnc1jgKrx5nqjgqWFd73pBFBvitAH13F9bEijmzKmkDppDmonDfel">Facebook page</a> stated. “Just prior, a boat with a single occupant traveling on the Cape Fear River, paused briefly at the American Fish Company and opened fire, fatally wounding three patrons, and injuring at least eight others. The boat then fled the area, towards the Intracoastal Waterway in the direction of Oak Island. Shortly after 10:00 PM, the U.S. Coast Guard observed a single individual matching the description of the shooter, loading their boat at the public boat ramp at NE 55th Street in Oak Island. The Coast Guard crew detained this suspect.”
The suspect reportedly was formerly known as Sean William DeBevoise, who authored a book titled, “Headshot: Betrayal of a Nation.” In the author’s comments about the book, he stated, “The attacks on 9/11 would decide my future for me. I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and deployed 3 times; first to Haiti&#8217;s political turmoil, then to Iraq twice. Returning from the warzone severely wounded, my life would never be the same as it once was.”

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What could have been an unspeakable tragedy unfolded at a youth baseball tournament in Katy, Texas, when gunfire ripped across a field crowded with children. A coach was struck in the shoulder during a pre-game prayer, and three men have since been arrested.
The Waller County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23, Ahmad Mawed, 21, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27, were charged with felony deadly conduct with a firearm after being accused of firing multiple rounds from a nearby pasture in the direction of children. A judge set bond at $100,000 for each of them.
The shooting happened at The Rac Katy. According to law enforcement, the three suspects were engaged in so-called “recreational shooting” about 600 to 700 yards away from the ballfield. One of their stray rounds struck a 27-year-old coach as he led a pre-game prayer with the young players.
Witnesses describe chaos as gunshots echoed across the complex. Houston Warriors founder Andy Baize said the coach shielded a child and then immediately helped lead players to safety, even while wounded. “He literally took the bullet for a child that was to his left,” Baize <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/3-men-arrested-katy-texas-baseball-coach-shot/285-aabc16d9-6cd5-4482-b35f-7e2a9c213c9e">told</a> KHOU 11, adding, “When he was struck by the bullet, his first reaction was to get down to the ground, cover his kids and get them to a safe space.”
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Emergency responders airlifted the coach to a hospital, where he was treated and later released. A bystander used a belt to stop the bleeding before paramedics arrived.
The incident was so intense that bullets reportedly struck a nearby light pole, and a livestream of the game captured coaches, umpires, and players sprinting for cover. Alex Smith and Corbin Geisendorff, coaches for the Texas Colts 12U team, said they had heard gunfire the previous day but thought it was distant. On Sunday, the shooting was unmistakably close.
“There were bullets flying everywhere … onto the field, off the poles,” Geisendorff <a href="https://abc13.com/amp/post/coach-injured-shooting-during-katy-baseball-game-rac-ems-says/17862158/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a>. “We’ll never be back there.”
“It’s terrible. I’m going to try to not get emotional, but I’ll never forget their little faces during that moment. It’s scary to realize how close the kids were,” Smith said. “Our team was about to take the field. Our kids were out, ready to go. And them shots started being let go. They ducked down, got in line, and they trusted us, thankfully, and we got them to their parents. &#8230; I just want to make sure they’re okay and their families are okay and we just stay together. That’s the ultimate goal.”
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Baize said the injured coach’s first words after surgery were: “I need to leave because I have to go coach my kids at 3 p.m.” The coach’s dedication, he added, underscores the gravity of what these children experienced — and how narrowly they escaped tragedy.
The Rac Katy issued a statement expressing sorrow, halting all games pending an internal and police investigation, and promising to do “everything possible” to prevent such an incident from happening again.

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