National Guardsman Recovering After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC
A member of the National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in the US capital.
The parents 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 Patrick Morrisey.
The soldier's relatives anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment 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 injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting in proximity to the White House on 26 November. His colleague, 20-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.
"We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" the governor said.
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 vigil read a statement from the soldier's parents, his family.
"We know that there is a long road to go," they wrote, as reported by local news outlet Metro News.
"However our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the world."
Earlier in the week, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was able to move his toes.
Law enforcement have charged the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and attempted murder.
Before coming to the United States in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside US forces in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two thousand National Guard members whom President Donald Trump dispatched to the Washington DC in last summer as part of his policy initiative in Democratic-led cities.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel sent to the District of Columbia.
The former presidential office has also referenced the attack as a justification for further restrictive policies.
They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for foreign nationals from 19 countries that were part of a entry restriction announced over the recent season, among them the suspect's home country.