Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing After Being Shot in the Nation's Capital
A member 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 parents of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" said the state's chief executive the governor.
The family expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, according to the official's statement.
The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members shot when a shooter opened fire not far from the presidential residence on November 26th. His colleague, 20-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.
"We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.
The governor was present at a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at Musselman High School in Inwood, West Virginia, where the serviceman was once a pupil.
A clergyman at the vigil read a statement from the guardsman's mother and father, Jason and Melody Wolfe.
"It is clear to us that there is a long road to go," they expressed, according to regional media outlets.
"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the prayers and the encouragement from people all over the world."
Previously, the governor said the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture 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 assault with intent to kill.
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 two thousand National Guard members whom the former president dispatched 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 sent to the District of Columbia.
The Trump administration has also cited the attack as a justification for further immigration crackdown measures.
They have halted naturalization proceedings for foreign nationals from 19 countries that were part of a entry restriction announced over the summer, among them Afghanistan.
