Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After Being Shot in Washington DC

A servicemember of the National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an targeted attack 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 'regain his familiar appearance,'" said West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.

The soldier's relatives expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the next two to three weeks, and they feel optimistic about his progress, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of two West Virginia National Guard members shot when a gunman began shooting in proximity to the presidential residence on 26 November. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.

"We continue to ask all state residents and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" the governor said.

Morrisey attended a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at Musselman High School in his hometown, where the guardsman was once a pupil.

A clergyman at the vigil read a message from the guardsman's mother and father, his family.

"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to regional media Metro News.

"However our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the prayers and the support from people all over the world."

Earlier in the week, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was able to move his toes.

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

Prior to his arrival to the US in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit 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 nation's capitol in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.

In the aftermath of the shooting, Trump said he desired an additional five hundred National Guard troops deployed to the District of Columbia.

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

They have halted naturalization proceedings for foreign nationals from a list of nations that were part of a travel ban announced over the recent season, among them the suspect's home country.