Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC
A member of the Air National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in the US capital.
The parents of the 24-year-old soldier, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" said the state's chief executive the governor.
The family expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel optimistic about his progress, according to the official's statement.
Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two state guardsmen shot when a shooter began shooting not far from the presidential residence on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.
"Our request remains for all state residents and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.
The governor was present at a vigil on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at Musselman High School in Inwood, West Virginia, where the serviceman was once a student.
A pastor at the event read a message from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.
"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, according to regional media Metro News.
"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the world."
Earlier in the week, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was able to move his toes.
Police have charged the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named the suspect, with first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Prior to his arrival to the United States in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a paramilitary group that worked with US forces in the South Asian nation.
The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom President Donald Trump dispatched to the nation's capitol in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.
Following the shooting, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred National Guard troops sent to the District of Columbia.
The Trump administration has also cited the shooting 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 travel ban announced over the summer, including the suspect's home country.
