Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After Being Shot in the Nation's Capital

A member of the Air National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC.

The parents of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, report "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.

The soldier's relatives expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, according to the official's statement.

The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting not far from the White House on November 26th. His colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.

"We continue to ask all state residents and Americans for their prayers!" the governor said.

Morrisey attended a vigil on Friday evening for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a student.

A clergyman at the vigil shared a message from the guardsman's mother and father, his family.

"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, as reported by regional media outlets.

"However our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world."

Earlier in the week, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was capable of move his toes.

Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an individual from Afghanistan named the suspect, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill.

Prior to his arrival to the United States in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that worked with US forces in the South Asian nation.

The injured airman was one of 2,000 militia personnel whom the former president dispatched to the Washington DC in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.

In the aftermath of the incident, the former president said he wanted another 500 military personnel sent to the nation's capital.

The Trump administration has also referenced the attack as a justification for additional immigration crackdown measures.

They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a travel ban implemented over the recent season, including the suspect's home country.