The hero West Virginia National Guard member who was killed after an ambush by an Afghan refugee in Washington, DC, was a soldier with “with a heart of gold” — who dreamed of one day joining the FBI, according to friends.
Sarah Beckstrom, 20, who died from wounds she suffered during the cowardly attack Wednesday, had joined the military to “get her foot in the door for a career in the FBI,” her friend and former boyfriend, Adam Carr, told NBC Friday.
Beckstrom worked at a health center for people with mental illness and substance abuse problems before she was deployed several months ago, the outlet reported.
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“She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” said Carr, who said they stayed on good terms when they broke up last month after six years together.
“[She’s] one of the most forgiving people.”
Beckstrom loved the outdoors and can be seen in photos hunting, roasting marshmallows over a fire and posing happily with Carr’s brother’s Dutch shepherd, Major.
“She was the sweetest girl. She was hard not to love. You loved her the minute you met her,” Carr’s tearful mom, Eva Carr, said. “[She had] a heart of gold.”
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