National Guardsman Healing After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in the Nation's Capital

A servicemember of the Air National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in the US capital.

The family 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,'" stated the state's chief executive Patrick Morrisey.

The soldier's relatives anticipates the Air Force staff sergeant to be in intensive treatment for the coming fortnight, and they feel hopeful about his recovery, said the governor.

The serviceman was one of a pair of state guardsmen shot when a gunman opened fire not far from the White House on November 26th. His fellow guardsmember, 20-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.

"We continue to ask all West Virginians and the nation's citizens for their prayers!" the governor said.

Morrisey was present at a vigil on last Friday night for Staff Sgt Wolfe at a local secondary school in his hometown, where the guardsman was once a student.

A clergyman at the event read a message from the soldier's parents, Jason and Melody Wolfe.

"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 hopeful. We remain grateful for the well-wishes and the encouragement from people all over the world."

Earlier in the week, the state official said Staff Sgt Wolfe had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was capable of wiggle his feet.

Law enforcement have formally accused the alleged gunman, an Afghan national 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 US forces in Afghanistan.

The injured airman was one of 2,000 militia personnel whom the former president dispatched to the Washington DC in August as part of his immigration and crime-related crackdown in Democratic-led cities.

In the aftermath of the shooting, Trump said he wanted an additional five hundred military personnel sent to the District of Columbia.

The former presidential office has also referenced the attack as a reason for further restrictive policies.

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