National Guardsman Healing Following Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in the Nation's Capital

A member of the Air National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC.

The family of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" stated West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.

The family expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel optimistic about his recovery, 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 fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.

"We continue to ask all state residents and Americans for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.

Morrisey attended a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a pupil.

A pastor at the vigil shared a message from the soldier's parents, his family.

"It is clear to us that there is a long road to go," they wrote, according to local news outlet outlets.

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

Previously, the state official said the serviceman had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was able to move his toes.

Police have charged the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill.

Before coming to the United States in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a paramilitary group that worked with US forces in Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of 2,000 National Guard members whom President Donald Trump deployed to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.

Following the shooting, Trump said he desired another 500 military personnel deployed to the District of Columbia.

The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a reason for additional 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.