Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC
A servicemember of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in Washington DC.
The family of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" stated West Virginia Governor the governor.
The soldier's relatives anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, and they feel optimistic about his recovery, according to the official's statement.
The serviceman was one of a pair of state guardsmen shot when a gunman opened fire not far from the White House on 26 November. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.
"Our request remains for all state residents and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" Morrisey declared.
The governor was present at a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student.
A clergyman at the vigil shared a message from the soldier's parents, his family.
"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, as reported by local news outlet Metro News.
"However our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the prayers and the support from people all over the globe."
Previously, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was able to wiggle his feet.
Police have charged the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named the suspect, with premeditated homicide and attempted murder.
Before coming to the US in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside US forces in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two thousand National Guard members whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.
In the aftermath of the incident, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred National Guard troops deployed to the nation's capital.
The former presidential office has also referenced the shooting as a justification for additional immigration crackdown measures.
They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for foreign nationals from a list of nations that were part of a travel ban announced over the recent season, among them the suspect's home country.
