Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering Following Being Shot in Washington DC

A member of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was gravely wounded in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC.

The parents of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, say "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" said 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 progress, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members shot when a gunman opened fire in proximity to the presidential residence on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.

"We continue to ask all state residents and Americans for their prayers!" the governor said.

Morrisey was present at a candlelight gathering on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at Musselman High School in his hometown, where the guardsman was once a student.

A clergyman at the vigil read a statement from the soldier's parents, his family.

"It is clear to us that there is a long road to go," they wrote, as reported by regional media outlets.

"But our belief 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 responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was able to move his toes.

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

Before coming to the US in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a CIA-backed unit that worked with US forces in Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of 2,000 National Guard members whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers.

Following the incident, the former president said he wanted another 500 National Guard troops deployed to the nation's capital.

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

They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a travel ban implemented over the summer, among them Afghanistan.