National Guardsman Healing After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC
A member of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was gravely wounded in an targeted attack last month in the US capital.
The parents of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, report "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" said the state's chief executive the governor.
The family expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his progress, 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 in proximity to the presidential residence on 26 November. His colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.
"Our request remains for all state residents and Americans for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.
Morrisey attended a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a pupil.
A clergyman at the vigil shared a statement from the guardsman's mother and father, his family.
"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, as reported by regional media Metro News.
"But our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world."
Previously, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was able to move his toes.
Police have charged the alleged gunman, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill.
Prior to his arrival to the United States in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside American troops in the South Asian nation.
The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom the former president deployed to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.
Following the shooting, the former president said he desired an additional five hundred National Guard troops sent to the nation's capital.
The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a reason for additional immigration crackdown measures.
They have halted naturalization proceedings for foreign nationals from a list of nations that were part of a travel ban announced over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.