🔗 Share this article National Guardsman Recovering After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC Members of the National Guard monitoring a subway stop 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 family of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, report "his head wound is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey. The family anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, and they feel optimistic about his progress, according to the official's statement. The serviceman was one of two state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting not far from the presidential residence on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her wounds. "We continue to ask all state residents and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared. The governor attended a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at Musselman High School in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student. A pastor at the event 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 wrote, as reported by local news outlet outlets. "However our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the globe." Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. Earlier in the week, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was able to wiggle his feet. Police have formally accused the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and attempted murder. Before coming to the United States 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 Afghanistan. Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of 2,000 National Guard members whom the former president deployed to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities. Following the incident, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel sent to the District of Columbia. The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a reason for further immigration crackdown measures. 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 the suspect's home country.
Members of the National Guard monitoring a subway stop 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 family of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, report "his head wound is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" said West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey. The family anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in acute care for the coming fortnight, and they feel optimistic about his progress, according to the official's statement. The serviceman was one of two state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting not far from the presidential residence on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her wounds. "We continue to ask all state residents and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared. The governor attended a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at Musselman High School in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student. A pastor at the event 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 wrote, as reported by local news outlet outlets. "However our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the well-wishes and the support from people all over the globe." Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. Earlier in the week, the governor said Staff Sgt Wolfe had acknowledged medical staff with a thumbs-up and was able to wiggle his feet. Police have formally accused the suspected shooter, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and attempted murder. Before coming to the United States 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 Afghanistan. Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of 2,000 National Guard members whom the former president deployed to the nation's capitol in last summer as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities. Following the incident, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel sent to the District of Columbia. The former presidential office has also cited the attack as a reason for further immigration crackdown measures. 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 the suspect's home country.