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

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

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

The soldier's relatives expects the military non-commissioned officer to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members shot when a gunman began shooting 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 Americans for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.

The governor attended a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a pupil.

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

"It is clear to us that there is a long road to go," they wrote, as reported by local news outlet Metro News.

"But our belief keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the prayers and the encouragement from people all over the world."

Previously, the governor said the serviceman had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was able to move his toes.

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 member of a special forces unit in a paramilitary group that worked with US forces in Afghanistan.

The injured airman was one of two thousand National Guard members whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.

Following the shooting, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel deployed to the District of Columbia.

The former presidential office has also referenced the shooting as a reason for further immigration crackdown measures.

They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for foreign nationals from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, including Afghanistan.