Earlier in the morning, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said the suspect, Rahmanaullah Lakanwal, 29, worked for the agency in Afghanistan prior to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the same year he immigrated to America.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members on Wednesday, worked alongside the CIA in Afghanistan before coming to the US four years ago, officials have said.

Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday afternoon just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a t...