National Guardsman Recovering Following Being Shot in the Nation's Capital

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

The parents of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.

The family expects the military non-commissioned officer to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of a pair of state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a shooter 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 West Virginians and Americans for their prayers!" the governor said.

The governor was present at a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a pupil.

A clergyman at the vigil read a message from the soldier's parents, his family.

"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, as reported by regional media Metro News.

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

Previously, 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 United States in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a paramilitary group that operated alongside American troops in the South Asian nation.

The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom President Donald Trump deployed to the nation's capitol in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.

Following the incident, Trump said he desired an additional five hundred military personnel deployed to the nation's capital.

The Trump administration has also cited the attack as a reason for additional restrictive policies.

They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for foreign nationals from a list of nations that were part of a travel ban announced over the recent season, including the suspect's home country.