Sen Shelley Moore Capito calls for death penalty in National Guard member’s killing

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito appeared on ‘Fox and Friends’ to discuss the recent National Guard shooting on Friday, November 28, 2025. 

Sharing her thoughts on the ongoing investigation of the matter, Capito said she agreed with US Attorney Pirro about seeking the maximum possible punishment for the shooter. 

Shelley Moore Capito praises Jeanine Pirro for seeking maximum punishment for shooter

Virginia Senator Capito was in agreement with Jeanine Pirro for demanding the death penalty in the National Guard shooting case. She said that the shooter attacked their troops on the streets of the capital. She added that Pirro was “right on track” and believed that the people of America would support her charges.

“It’s a horrific attack,” she added.

Capito noted that Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe were in Washington to keep the peace and to make the capital safer, adding that they were taken "by the very thing" that they were trying to prevent.  

Shelley Moore Capito slams Biden admin's 'inability to vet people'

Recalling the mass migration of Afghan nationals into America, Capito said that they had set a bill requiring the vetting of those who were coming into the country. She added that they didn’t know who they were and that it happened quickly, and called the situation "chaotic."

Capito called it an aftermath of “poor policies” and noted the “inability to vet people.” She further said that vetting people from a country like Afghanistan would have been difficult to begin with, due to the lack of systems in the foreign nation, and said that the Biden government should have known who they were before letting them in.

Furthermore, the senator chimed in on the National Guard deployment in Washington, which was highly criticized by several democratic leaders. Capito said that the troops had been present in the district since August 2025, due to which, the crime statistics went down. 

She wondered whether her colleagues had ever spoken to the troops on the streets, noting that they were volunteers and had “volunteered to serve our country.” Captio explained that since the troops were present in the city, it freed the Metropolitan police in DC to be able to deal with other criminal cases. 

“I could question whether my colleagues ever took the time to stop at Union Station, talk to a West Virginia Guardsman, and ask them, ‘What are you seeing? How do you feel about this?” she added.