Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing Following Being Shot in Washington DC

A servicemember of the Air National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in Washington DC.

The parents of Andrew Wolfe, 24, say "his head wound is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" stated West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.

The soldier's relatives anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his progress, said the governor.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting not far from the White House on November 26th. His colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.

"We continue to ask all West Virginians and Americans for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.

Morrisey was present at a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for the injured soldier at Musselman High School in his hometown, where the guardsman was once a student.

A pastor at the event read a message from the soldier's parents, his family.

"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, according to regional media outlets.

"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the prayers and the support from people all over the globe."

Earlier in the week, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was able to move his toes.

Police have charged the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Before coming to the United States in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that worked with American troops in Afghanistan.

The injured airman was one of two thousand National Guard members whom the former president dispatched to the Washington DC in last summer as part of his policy initiative in urban centers.

Following the incident, the former president said he desired an additional five hundred National Guard troops sent to the nation's capital.

The Trump administration has also cited the shooting as a justification for additional restrictive policies.

They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from 19 countries that were part of a entry restriction announced over the summer, among them Afghanistan.