National Guardsman Healing Following Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC
A servicemember of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in the US capital.
The family of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said 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, according to the official's statement.
The serviceman was one of two West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting not far from the White House on November 26th. His colleague, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died from her injuries.
"We continue to ask all state residents and Americans for their thoughts and prayers!" the governor said.
Morrisey attended a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a pupil.
A pastor at the event shared a statement from the soldier's parents, his family.
"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, as reported by local news outlet Metro News.
"However our belief keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the world."
Earlier in the week, the governor said the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture and was able to wiggle his feet.
Police have formally accused the suspected shooter, an Afghan national named the suspect, with first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Before coming to the US in 2021, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside US forces in Afghanistan.
The injured airman was one of 2,000 National Guard members 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.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred National Guard troops deployed to the nation's capital.
The Trump administration has also referenced the shooting as a justification for further restrictive policies.
They have halted naturalization proceedings for foreign nationals from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, among them the suspect's home country.
