Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing After Being Shot in Washington DC
A member of the Air 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, twenty-four, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said the state's chief executive Patrick Morrisey.
The family expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment 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 two West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting not far from the presidential residence on 26 November. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died from her injuries.
"We continue to ask all West Virginians and Americans for their prayers!" Morrisey declared.
The governor attended a vigil 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 event read a statement from the soldier's parents, his family.
"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, as reported by regional media outlets.
"But our belief keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the prayers and the encouragement from people all over the world."
Previously, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was capable of move his toes.
Police have formally accused the suspected shooter, an Afghan national named the suspect, with premeditated homicide and assault with intent to kill.
Prior to his arrival to the United States in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a paramilitary group that operated alongside US forces in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two thousand militia personnel whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.
In the aftermath of the incident, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel sent to the District of Columbia.
The Trump administration has also cited the attack as a justification for additional immigration crackdown measures.
They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a travel ban implemented over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.
