National Guardsman Healing Following Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC

A servicemember of the 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, report "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 family anticipates the military non-commissioned officer to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, 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 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 the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.

The governor was present at a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the serviceman was once a pupil.

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

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

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

Earlier in the week, the state official said the serviceman had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was capable of move his toes.

Police have formally accused the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 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 CIA-backed unit that worked with US forces in the South Asian nation.

The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol in August as part of his policy initiative in urban centers.

In the aftermath of the incident, the former president said he desired an additional five hundred National Guard troops deployed to the nation's capital.

The former presidential office has also cited the shooting as a reason for further restrictive policies.

They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from 19 countries that were part of a entry restriction announced over the recent season, including Afghanistan.