Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.

Prosecutors have upgraded the charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday.

U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Piro, says the suspect is now facing first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died.

There are certainly many more charges to come, but we are upgrading the initial charges of assault to murder in the first degree.

Both National Guard members grew up in West Virginia.

Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe was from the Martinsburg area and specialist Sarah

Bextram from Webster County. And PR's Dave Mistidge visited Martinsburg to see how the community is

responding. Most everywhere around Martinsburg, West Virginia was closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

But in the handful of bars and restaurants that were open yesterday evening,

Army Specialist Sarah Bextram and Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf were on many minds.

Amy Freyley was behind the bar at the Big Apple Lounge in Inwood.

It's tragic.

They're young.

It's unnecessary.

It's heart-craving.

Jason Barrett serves the Martinsburg area as a Republican in the West Virginia Senate. It's unnecessary. It's heart-graving.

Jason Barrett serves the Martinsburg area as a Republican in the West Virginia Senate.

Barrett says the conversation is warranted on the guards continued deployment to D.C., but he says the shooting also does show the need for the nation's capital to be kept safe.

For now, though, he says his focus, like others here I spoke with,

his own supporting the Wolf and Bexham families. Dave Mistitch, NPR News, Martinsburg, West Virginia.

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