Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering Following Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in the Nation's Capital
A servicemember 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 family of the 24-year-old soldier, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.
The soldier's relatives expects the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, according to the official's statement.
Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of a pair of state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a shooter opened fire in proximity to the White House on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died from her injuries.
"We continue to ask all state residents and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" the governor said.
The governor was present at a vigil on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the guardsman was once a pupil.
A clergyman at the vigil shared a statement from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.
"It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, as reported by regional media Metro News.
"But our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the prayers and the encouragement from people all over the globe."
Earlier in the week, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was able to move his toes.
Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an Afghan national 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 paramilitary group that operated alongside US forces in Afghanistan.
The injured airman was one of 2,000 National Guard members whom President Donald Trump deployed to the Washington DC in last summer as part of his policy initiative in Democratic-led cities.
Following the shooting, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel sent to the District of Columbia.
The Trump administration has also cited the attack as a reason for additional immigration crackdown measures.
They have halted naturalization proceedings for foreign nationals from a list of nations that were part of a travel ban implemented over the summer, among them Afghanistan.
