Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing Following Being Shot in Washington DC
A member of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was gravely wounded in an targeted attack last month in the US capital.
The parents of Andrew Wolfe, 24, say "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.
The soldier's relatives expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, said the governor.
Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members shot when a shooter began shooting not far from the presidential residence on November 26th. His colleague, twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her wounds.
"We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.
Morrisey attended a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student.
A clergyman at the vigil shared a message from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.
"We know that there is a long road to go," they wrote, as reported by local news outlet Metro News.
"However our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the globe."
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 charged the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and attempted murder.
Before coming to the US in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside American troops in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two thousand National Guard members whom President Donald Trump deployed to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.
In the aftermath of the shooting, the former president said he wanted another 500 military personnel sent to the nation's capital.
The former presidential office has also referenced the shooting as a reason for additional immigration crackdown measures.
They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the summer, among them Afghanistan.