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.”

🚨Sad news: The father of 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom from the WV National Guard says her death is all but certain. "She has a mortal wound. It's not going to be a recovery." pic.twitter.com/IJMIOYQ6th

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) November 27, 2025

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 ‘partner force’ 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 reported.

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.”

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) posted a performance piece on Sunday — wringing her hands as she blamed the recently-ended government shutdown on President Donald Trump and claimed that he had almost single-handedly ruined Thanksgiving because of it — and got an impromptu review from actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman.

Murray, who voted to keep the government closed — and thus deprive millions of Americans of their food stamp (SNAP) benefits — more than a dozen times, claimed that Trump and Republicans were taking major steps to deprive families of food assistance as the holidays approached. Her main point of contention appeared to be the fact that President Trump had refused to override her vote — and the votes of a majority of Democrats — and do what they would not do, and she insisted that he was the real reason families were being made to suffer.

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It’s nearly Thanksgiving and everyone should remember that Trump fought all the way to the Supreme Court to deny families SNAP benefits this month.

All of this after Trump & Republicans passed the largest cuts to SNAP in HISTORY this summer.

It’s fundamentally immoral. pic.twitter.com/tiDol5wegG

— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) November 24, 2025

“It’s nearly Thanksgiving and everyone should remember that Trump fought all the way to the Supreme Court to deny families SNAP benefits this month. All of this after Trump & Republicans passed the largest cuts to SNAP in HISTORY this summer. It’s fundamentally immoral,” she said.

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Bateman chimed in with her review, addressing everything from the actress and her demeanor to the staging and the setting chosen for the video.

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#SocialMediaVideoCritique
Per: @sunnylohmann
– There are many unfortunate issues with this piece.
– The actress appears to be at once under-rehearsed, and also weary of the task of performing.
– Careful casting is a must when a project has an exacting director. The impression… https://t.co/DlAxrq3NyE

— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) November 25, 2025

“There are many unfortunate issues with this piece,” Bateman began, starting in on Murray immediately. “The actress appears to be at once under-rehearsed, and also weary of the task of performing. Careful casting is a must when a project has an exacting director.”

“The impression given here is that the director’s efforts to elicit a proper performance caused the actress to check out during her takes,” Bateman continued. “The resulting dialogue delivery is halting. Awkward pauses within the compound word ‘Thanksgiving’ and before some prepositions are perhaps an effort by the actress to sabotage the piece itself.”

When she’d finished with the actress and her awkward delivery, Bateman turned her attention to the staging of the shot — and some of the issues that a good camera operator would certainly have noticed before making the film public.

“The utilitarian lighting appears to have been applied hastily and implies a parking garage or other industrial settings,” she noted. “The camera frame is vertical with some hazy video filled in at the sides. Avoid this at all costs. This implies an amateur effort. Properly orient your camera horizontally.”

“Finally, the setting is extremely distracting. The first impression is that the actress is standing in a bathroom stall. The low wall on her left as the semi-private partition. The orange object on the floor appears to be a toilet with closed toilet seat cover,” Bateman concluded. “The silver pipe on the wall suggests an old-fashioned flush system, where the tank is installed above. And the red box serving as the ‘flush’ button.”