Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering Following Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC
A servicemember 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, 24, report "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" stated the state's chief executive Patrick Morrisey.
The soldier's relatives anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, according to the official's statement.
The serviceman was one of two West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting in proximity to the White House on 26 November. His colleague, 20-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.
"Our request remains for all West Virginians and Americans for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.
The governor was present at a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the serviceman was once a student.
A pastor at the event read a message from the guardsman's mother and father, his family.
"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to regional media Metro News.
"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain grateful for the prayers and the support from people all over the globe."
Previously, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was able to wiggle his feet.
Law enforcement have formally accused the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named the suspect, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill.
Before coming 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 two thousand National Guard members whom President Donald Trump deployed to the Washington DC in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.
Following the incident, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel deployed to the nation's capital.
The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a justification for further immigration crackdown measures.
They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for foreign nationals from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction announced over the summer, among them the suspect's home country.
