National Guardsman Healing After Being Shot in Washington DC

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

The family of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said the state's chief executive the governor.

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

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members shot when a gunman opened fire not far from the White House on 26 November. His colleague, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her wounds.

"Our request remains for all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" Morrisey declared.

The governor attended a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at Musselman High School in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a student.

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

"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to regional media Metro News.

"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the prayers and the encouragement from people all over the globe."

Previously, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was capable of wiggle his feet.

Police have formally accused the suspected shooter, an Afghan national named the suspect, with first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Prior to his arrival to the United States in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside American troops in Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two thousand militia personnel whom President Donald Trump dispatched to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.

Following the incident, Trump said he desired another 500 National Guard troops deployed to the District of Columbia.

The Trump administration has also cited the attack as a justification for additional immigration crackdown measures.

They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction announced over the recent season, among them the suspect's home country.