One of the two National Guard members from West Virginia wounded in a shooting in downtown Washington, D.C., near the White House on Wednesday, has died and the other is "fighting for his life," President Donald Trump said Thursday evening.

President Donald Trump is stiffening his administration's resolve to use military might as a crime-fighting tool in the wake of two National Guard members being shot within blocks of the White House.

He called the suspect, whom people familiar with the investigation identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an “animal” who shot the guard members “at point-blank range in a monstrous, ambush-style att...