Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing Following Being Shot in the Nation's Capital

A member of the National Guard is on the mend after he was gravely wounded in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC.

The family of the 24-year-old soldier, twenty-four, report "his head wound 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 anticipates the military non-commissioned officer to be in acute care for the next two to three weeks, and they feel optimistic about his recovery, said the governor.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a gunman began shooting not far from the White House on 26 November. His colleague, 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 Friday evening for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the guardsman was once a student.

A pastor at the vigil read a message from the guardsman's mother and father, Jason and Melody Wolfe.

"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to local news outlet Metro News.

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

Previously, the governor said the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was capable of wiggle his feet.

Law enforcement have formally accused the alleged gunman, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and assault with intent to kill.

Before coming to the US in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a paramilitary group that operated alongside American troops in Afghanistan.

The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom President Donald Trump dispatched to the Washington DC in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.

Following the shooting, Trump said he wanted another 500 military personnel sent to the District of Columbia.

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

They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, including Afghanistan.