Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering Following Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC
A servicemember of the National Guard is on the mend after he was gravely wounded in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC.
The family of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.
The soldier's relatives 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, said the governor.
The serviceman was one of two state guardsmen shot when a gunman began shooting not far from the presidential residence on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.
"Our request remains for all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" Morrisey declared.
Morrisey was present at a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a student.
A clergyman at the event shared a message from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.
"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to regional media outlets.
"But our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the prayers and the encouragement from people all over the globe."
Previously, the governor 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 alleged gunman, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill.
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 operated alongside American troops in Afghanistan.
The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom the former president deployed to the nation's capitol in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.
Following the shooting, the former president said he desired another 500 National Guard troops deployed to the District of Columbia.
The Trump administration has also referenced 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 summer, including the suspect's home country.
