National Guardsman Healing After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC

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

The family of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, report "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" said West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.

The soldier's relatives anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the next two to three weeks, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, according to the official's statement.

The serviceman was one of two state guardsmen shot when a gunman began shooting not far from the White House on November 26th. His colleague, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her wounds.

"Our request remains for all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" the governor said.

The governor was present at a vigil on Friday evening for the injured soldier at Musselman High School in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a pupil.

A clergyman at the event shared a message from the soldier's parents, his family.

"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, according to regional media Metro News.

"However our faith keeps us hopeful. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the world."

Earlier in the week, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture and was capable of wiggle his feet.

Law enforcement have charged the alleged gunman, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and assault with intent to kill.

Prior to his arrival to the United States in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that worked with American troops in Afghanistan.

The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel 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 shooting, Trump said he desired an additional five hundred National Guard troops deployed to the nation's capital.

The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a justification for further immigration crackdown measures.

They have halted naturalization proceedings for foreign nationals from 19 countries that were part of a travel ban announced over the summer, including Afghanistan.