Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering Following Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in the Nation's Capital

A member of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in Washington DC.

The parents of the 24-year-old soldier, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head 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 intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his progress, according to the official's statement.

The serviceman was one of two West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter opened fire not far from the White House on 26 November. His colleague, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her wounds.

"We continue to ask all state residents and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" Morrisey declared.

Morrisey was present at 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 clergyman at the event read a message from the guardsman's mother and father, his family.

"It is clear to us that there is a long road to go," they wrote, according to regional media Metro News.

"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain grateful for the well-wishes 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 capable of wiggle his feet.

Law enforcement have charged the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Before coming to the US in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside US forces in the South Asian nation.

The injured airman was one of two thousand National Guard members whom President Donald Trump dispatched to the Washington DC in last summer as part of his policy initiative in Democratic-led cities.

In the aftermath of the incident, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred National Guard troops deployed to the District of Columbia.

The Trump administration has also cited the attack as a reason for further restrictive policies.

They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from 19 countries that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, including the suspect's home country.