đ Share this article National Guardsman Healing Following Being Shot in Washington DC Personnel of the state militia monitoring a subway stop in Washington DC. A member of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was gravely wounded in an ambush-style shooting last month in the US capital. The parents of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, say "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said the state's chief executive the governor. The soldier's relatives expects the military non-commissioned officer to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, and they feel optimistic about his progress, said the governor. The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a gunman 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 prayers!" Morrisey declared. The governor was present at a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a student. A pastor at the vigil read a statement from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe. "We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to regional media Metro News. "But our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the prayers and the support from people all over the globe." Sergeant the recovering guardsman. Previously, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was capable of move his toes. Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named the suspect, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill. Prior to his arrival to the US in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a paramilitary group that worked with US forces in Afghanistan. The injured airman was one of two thousand National Guard members whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers. Following the shooting, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel deployed to the District of Columbia. The Trump administration has also cited the attack as a justification for further 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 recent season, among them the suspect's home country.
Personnel of the state militia monitoring a subway stop in Washington DC. A member of the National Guard is showing improvement after he was gravely wounded in an ambush-style shooting last month in the US capital. The parents of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, say "his head wound is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said the state's chief executive the governor. The soldier's relatives expects the military non-commissioned officer to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, and they feel optimistic about his progress, said the governor. The serviceman was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a gunman 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 prayers!" Morrisey declared. The governor was present at a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the guardsman was once a student. A pastor at the vigil read a statement from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe. "We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they expressed, according to regional media Metro News. "But our belief keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the prayers and the support from people all over the globe." Sergeant the recovering guardsman. Previously, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was capable of move his toes. Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an Afghan national named the suspect, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill. Prior to his arrival to the US in 2021, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a paramilitary group that worked with US forces in Afghanistan. The injured airman was one of two thousand National Guard members whom the former president dispatched to the nation's capitol in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in urban centers. Following the shooting, the former president said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel deployed to the District of Columbia. The Trump administration has also cited the attack as a justification for further 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 recent season, among them the suspect's home country.