Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in the Nation's Capital

A member of the Air National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in Washington DC.

The parents of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" stated West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.

The family anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, and they feel optimistic about his recovery, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of two West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter opened fire 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 West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" the governor said.

The governor was present at a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the serviceman was once a student.

A pastor at the vigil read a message from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.

"It is clear to us that there is a long road to go," they wrote, according to regional media Metro News.

"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 the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture and was capable of move his toes.

Law enforcement have formally accused the suspected shooter, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and assault with intent to kill.

Before coming to the US in 2021, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a paramilitary group that worked with US forces in Afghanistan.

The injured airman was one of 2,000 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, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel sent to the nation's capital.

The former presidential office has also cited the attack 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 entry restriction announced over the recent season, including the suspect's home country.