Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After 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 ambush-style shooting last month in the US capital.

The parents of the 24-year-old soldier, twenty-four, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said the state's chief executive the governor.

The family expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care 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 opened fire not far from the presidential residence on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her wounds.

"Our request remains for all West Virginians and Americans for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.

The governor was present at a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student.

A clergyman at the event read a message from the guardsman's mother and father, Jason and Melody Wolfe.

"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, as reported by regional media outlets.

"But our belief keeps us hopeful. We remain grateful for the prayers and the support from people all over the globe."

Earlier in the week, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was capable of move his toes.

Police have charged the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named the suspect, with first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Prior to his arrival to the US in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that worked with US forces in Afghanistan.

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

Following the shooting, the former president said he desired an additional five hundred National Guard troops sent to the District of Columbia.

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

They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from 19 countries that were part of a travel ban announced over the recent season, including Afghanistan.