Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing Following Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC
A member of the National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in the US capital.
The family of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said the state's chief executive the governor.
The family anticipates the military non-commissioned officer to be in acute care for the next two to three weeks, and they feel optimistic about his progress, according to the official's statement.
The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members shot when a shooter began shooting in proximity to the White House on 26 November. 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.
The governor was present at a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at Musselman High School in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a pupil.
A pastor at the event shared a statement from the guardsman's mother and father, Jason and Melody Wolfe.
"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to regional media outlets.
"However our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the globe."
Previously, the state official said the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was capable of move his toes.
Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named the suspect, with premeditated homicide and attempted murder.
Prior to his arrival to the United States in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside US forces in the South Asian nation.
The injured airman was one of two thousand National Guard members whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol 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 National Guard troops sent to the nation's capital.
The former presidential office has also referenced the shooting as a reason for further restrictive policies.
They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction announced over the summer, among them Afghanistan.