National Guardsman Healing After Being Shot in Washington DC
A servicemember of the Air National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC.
The family of Andrew Wolfe, 24, report "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" stated West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.
The family anticipates the military non-commissioned officer to be in acute care for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, said the governor.
The serviceman was one of a pair of state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a shooter opened fire not far from the presidential residence on 26 November. His colleague, 20-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.
"We continue to ask all state residents and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" the governor said.
Morrisey attended a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a pupil.
A pastor at the event shared 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, as reported by local news outlet Metro News.
"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain grateful for the prayers and the support from people all over the world."
Previously, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was capable of move his toes.
Law enforcement have formally accused the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named the suspect, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill.
Before coming to the US in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that worked with US forces in Afghanistan.
The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom President Donald Trump dispatched to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his policy initiative in urban centers.
Following the shooting, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred National Guard troops sent to the nation's capital.
The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a reason for further restrictive policies.
They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from 19 countries that were part of a travel ban announced over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.
