Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing After Being Shot in the Nation's Capital
A member of the Air National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in the US capital.
The family of the 24-year-old soldier, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's beginning to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.
The soldier's relatives anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his progress, according to the official's statement.
The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting not far from the presidential residence on 26 November. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died from her injuries.
"We continue to ask all West Virginians and Americans for their prayers!" the governor said.
Morrisey was present at a vigil on last Friday night for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman 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 long road to go," they expressed, as reported by local news outlet Metro News.
"But our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world."
Previously, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture and was capable of move his toes.
Police have charged the alleged gunman, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and assault with intent to kill.
Before coming 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 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 last summer as part of his policy initiative in Democratic-led cities.
In the aftermath of the incident, Trump said he wanted another 500 National Guard troops sent to the nation's capital.
The former presidential office has also cited the shooting as a justification 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 summer, including the suspect's home country.
