National Guardsman Recovering Following Being Shot in the Nation's Capital

A servicemember of the Air National Guard is on the mend 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,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.

The family anticipates the military non-commissioned officer to be in intensive treatment for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his progress, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a gunman opened fire in proximity to the White House on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.

"We continue to ask all state residents and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" the governor said.

Morrisey was present at a vigil on last Friday night for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the guardsman was once a student.

A clergyman at the event 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 wrote, according to regional media outlets.

"But our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the prayers and the support from people all over the globe."

Previously, the state official said the serviceman had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was able to wiggle his feet.

Law enforcement have charged the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder 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 US forces in the South Asian nation.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two thousand militia personnel whom the former president deployed to the Washington DC 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 another 500 National Guard troops deployed to the District of Columbia.

The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a justification for additional restrictive policies.

They have halted naturalization proceedings for foreign nationals from 19 countries that were part of a travel ban announced over the summer, including the suspect's home country.