Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After Being Shot in the Nation's Capital
A servicemember of the National Guard is on the mend after he was gravely wounded in an ambush-style shooting last month in Washington DC.
The family of the 24-year-old soldier, twenty-four, say "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" stated West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.
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 hopeful about his progress, said the governor.
Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a gunman opened fire not far from the White House on 26 November. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.
"Our request remains for 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 guardsman was once a pupil.
A pastor at the event read a statement from the guardsman's mother and father, his family.
"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to regional media Metro News.
"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world."
Earlier in the week, the state official said the serviceman had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was capable of move his toes.
Law enforcement have charged the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named the suspect, with premeditated homicide and attempted murder.
Before coming to the US in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a paramilitary group that operated alongside US forces in the South Asian nation.
The injured airman was one of 2,000 National Guard members whom the former president deployed to the Washington DC in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.
In the aftermath of the incident, the former president said he desired another 500 military personnel sent to the nation's capital.
The former presidential office has also referenced the shooting as a justification for further immigration crackdown measures.
They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction announced over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.
