National Guardsman Healing After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in the Nation's Capital
A servicemember of the Air National Guard is on the mend after he was gravely wounded in an ambush-style shooting last month in Washington DC.
The family of Andrew Wolfe, 24, report "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" said West Virginia Governor the governor.
The soldier's relatives expects the military non-commissioned officer to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, 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 colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.
"We continue to ask all state residents and Americans for their prayers!" the governor said.
The governor was present at a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a student.
A pastor at the event shared a statement from the guardsman's mother and father, his family.
"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, as reported by local news outlet outlets.
"But our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the world."
Previously, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was capable of wiggle his feet.
Police have charged the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named the suspect, with premeditated homicide 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 the South Asian nation.
The injured airman was one of 2,000 militia personnel whom President Donald Trump dispatched to the Washington DC in August as part of his policy initiative in urban centers.
In the aftermath of the incident, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred National Guard troops deployed to the District of Columbia.
The former presidential office has also referenced the shooting as a reason for additional restrictive policies.
They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.
