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

A servicemember of the Air National Guard is showing improvement after he was gravely wounded in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC.

The family of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.

The soldier's relatives anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, according to the official's statement.

The serviceman was one of a pair of state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting in proximity to the presidential residence on 26 November. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.

"We continue to ask all West Virginians and Americans for their prayers!" Morrisey declared.

Morrisey was present at a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the serviceman was once a pupil.

A clergyman at the vigil read a statement from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.

"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, as reported by local news outlet outlets.

"However our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the globe."

Earlier in the week, the governor said the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture and was able to move his toes.

Police have formally accused the suspected shooter, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and attempted murder.

Before coming to the United States in 2021, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that worked with US forces in Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of 2,000 militia personnel whom President Donald Trump deployed to the Washington DC in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.

Following the shooting, the former president 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 reason for additional immigration crackdown measures.

They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the summer, among them Afghanistan.