Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing 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 targeted attack last month in Washington DC.

The parents of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.

The family expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his progress, according to the official's statement.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a gunman began shooting not far from the White House on November 26th. His colleague, 20-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.

"We continue to ask all West Virginians and Americans for their thoughts and prayers!" the governor said.

The governor was present at a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a pupil.

A clergyman at the vigil shared a message from the guardsman's mother and father, Jason and Melody Wolfe.

"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to local news outlet 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 the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was able to wiggle his feet.

Law enforcement have charged the alleged gunman, an individual from Afghanistan named the suspect, with first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Before coming to the United States in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a paramilitary group that worked with US forces in Afghanistan.

The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom the former president deployed to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his policy initiative in urban centers.

Following the incident, the former president said he wanted another 500 National Guard troops sent to the nation's capital.

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 travel ban implemented over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.