🔗 Share this article Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering Following Being Shot in the Nation's Capital Members of the National Guard monitoring a metro station in Washington DC. A member of the National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in the US capital. The parents of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" stated West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey. The family anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his progress, according to the official's statement. Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting in proximity to the White House on November 26th. His colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries. "We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared. The governor attended a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student. A pastor at the vigil read a statement from the guardsman's mother and father, his family. "We know that there is a long road to go," they expressed, according to local news outlet outlets. "But our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world." Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. Previously, the governor said the serviceman had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was capable of wiggle his feet. Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill. Before coming to the US in 2021, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that worked with US forces in the South Asian nation. 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. In the aftermath of the shooting, Trump said he wanted another 500 National Guard troops sent to the District of Columbia. The Trump administration has also referenced the attack as a reason for additional restrictive policies. They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from 19 countries 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 metro station in Washington DC. A member of the National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in the US capital. The parents of Andrew Wolfe, twenty-four, say "the injury to his head is gradually improving and that he's starting to 'regain his familiar appearance,'" stated West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey. The family anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his progress, according to the official's statement. Staff Sgt Wolfe was one of a pair of West Virginia National Guard members injured by gunfire when a shooter began shooting in proximity to the White House on November 26th. His colleague, twenty-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries. "We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their thoughts and prayers!" Morrisey declared. The governor attended a candlelight gathering on Friday evening for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the serviceman was once a student. A pastor at the vigil read a statement from the guardsman's mother and father, his family. "We know that there is a long road to go," they expressed, according to local news outlet outlets. "But our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain grateful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world." Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. Previously, the governor said the serviceman had responded to a nurse with a thumbs-up and was capable of wiggle his feet. Police have formally accused the alleged gunman, an individual from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill. Before coming to the US in 2021, he was once a member of a special forces unit in a CIA-backed unit that worked with US forces in the South Asian nation. 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. In the aftermath of the shooting, Trump said he wanted another 500 National Guard troops sent to the District of Columbia. The Trump administration has also referenced the attack as a reason for additional restrictive policies. They have cancelled all citizenship ceremonies for immigrants from 19 countries that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the summer, among them the suspect's home country.