Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in the Nation's Capital

A member of the Air National Guard is showing improvement after he was gravely wounded in an targeted attack last month in the US capital.

The parents 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 West Virginia Governor the governor.

The soldier's relatives expects the military non-commissioned officer to be in acute care for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his progress, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of two West Virginia National Guard members shot when a shooter began shooting in proximity to the White House on November 26th. His colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.

"Our request remains for all state residents and Americans for their prayers!" the governor said.

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

A clergyman at the event shared a statement from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.

"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, as reported by local news outlet Metro News.

"However our belief keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the globe."

Previously, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was capable of wiggle his feet.

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 US in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that worked with American troops in the South Asian nation.

The injured airman was one of 2,000 militia personnel whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.

In the aftermath of the shooting, Trump said he desired an additional five hundred military personnel deployed to the nation's capital.

The former presidential office has also cited the shooting as a reason for additional immigration crackdown measures.

They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.