The terror suspect accused of shooting two National Guard troops just blocks from the White House was taken down with a simple pocket knife by a heroic guardsman who rushed to the scene, according to reports.
Suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan evacuee, allegedly drove across the country from his US home in Bellingham, Washington — a nearly 3,000-mile, 40-hour haul — to arrive in D.C. by Wednesday afternoon, officials confirmed after the attack.
It remains unclear when Lakanwal left home — where he reportedly has a wife and five children — and when he arrived in the nation’s capital.
However, he was laying in wait on a corner the Farragut West Metro entrance, just two blocks from the White House by about 2 p.m. — where two armed National Guard troops were standing patrol.
