Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC

A servicemember of the Air National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in the US capital.

The family of the 24-year-old soldier, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" said the state's chief executive the governor.

The family anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the next two to three weeks, and they feel optimistic about his progress, said the governor.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting not far from the presidential residence on 26 November. His colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, succumbed to her wounds.

"Our request remains for all state residents and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared.

The governor attended a vigil on Friday evening for the injured soldier at Musselman High School in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student.

A pastor at the vigil 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 expressed, as reported by regional media Metro News.

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

Earlier in the week, the governor said the serviceman had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was capable of wiggle his feet.

Law enforcement have charged the suspected shooter, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and attempted murder.

Prior to his arrival to the US 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 Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of two thousand National Guard members whom President Donald Trump dispatched to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.

Following the incident, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel deployed to the nation's capital.

The former presidential office has also referenced the attack as a justification for additional restrictive policies.

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