🔗 Share this article Air Force Staff Sergeant Healing After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC Personnel of the state militia monitoring a metro station in Washington DC. A servicemember of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC. The parents of Andrew Wolfe, 24, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" stated the state's chief executive Patrick Morrisey. The family expects the military non-commissioned officer 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 a pair of West Virginia National Guard members shot when a shooter opened fire not far from the White House on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died from her injuries. "We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" the governor said. The governor attended a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a pupil. A clergyman at the event shared a message from the soldier's parents, his family. "It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, according to local news outlet Metro News. "However our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world." Staff Sgt Andrew Wolfe. Earlier in the week, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture and was able to move his toes. Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and assault with intent to kill. Before coming to the US in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside American troops in the South Asian nation. The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom the former president deployed to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his policy initiative in urban centers. Following the shooting, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred National Guard troops sent to the District of Columbia. The Trump administration has also referenced the attack as a justification for further immigration crackdown measures. They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.
Personnel of the state militia monitoring a metro station in Washington DC. A servicemember of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in Washington DC. The parents of Andrew Wolfe, 24, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" stated the state's chief executive Patrick Morrisey. The family expects the military non-commissioned officer 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 a pair of West Virginia National Guard members shot when a shooter opened fire not far from the White House on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died from her injuries. "We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" the governor said. The governor attended a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a pupil. A clergyman at the event shared a message from the soldier's parents, his family. "It is clear to us that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, according to local news outlet Metro News. "However our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world." Staff Sgt Andrew Wolfe. Earlier in the week, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a positive gesture and was able to move his toes. Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with premeditated homicide and assault with intent to kill. Before coming to the US in two years ago, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that operated alongside American troops in the South Asian nation. The injured airman was one of two thousand militia personnel whom the former president deployed to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his policy initiative in urban centers. Following the shooting, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred National Guard troops sent to the District of Columbia. The Trump administration has also referenced the attack as a justification for further immigration crackdown measures. They have halted naturalization proceedings for immigrants from a list of nations that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, among them Afghanistan.