Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in the Nation's Capital

A member of the Air National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC.

The family of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, report "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" said the state's chief executive Patrick Morrisey.

The family expects the military non-commissioned officer to be in intensive treatment for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his progress, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of two state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a shooter opened fire in proximity to the presidential residence on 26 November. His colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.

"We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" Morrisey declared.

Morrisey attended a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student.

A pastor at the vigil shared a message from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.

"We know that there is a long road to go," they wrote, as reported by local news outlet outlets.

"However our belief keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the world."

Previously, the state official said the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture and was capable of wiggle his feet.

Police have charged the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill.

Prior to his arrival to the US in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that worked with American troops 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 immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.

In the aftermath of the incident, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel sent to the District of Columbia.

The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a justification for further restrictive policies.

They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the summer, including the suspect's home country.