Air Force Staff Sergeant Recovering After Sustaining Gunshot Wounds in Washington DC

A member of the National Guard is on the mend after he was critically injured in an targeted attack last month in the US capital.

The parents of the 24-year-old soldier, 24, report "the injury to his head is slowly healing and that he's starting to 'look more like himself,'" stated the state's chief executive the governor.

The family anticipates the military non-commissioned officer 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 a pair of state guardsmen injured by gunfire when a shooter opened fire in proximity to the White House on November 26th. His colleague, 20-year-old his counterpart, died from her injuries.

"Our request remains for all state residents and Americans for their prayers!" Morrisey declared.

The governor attended a vigil on Friday evening for the injured soldier at a local secondary school in Inwood, West Virginia, where the serviceman was once a pupil.

A pastor at the event read a statement from the soldier's parents, his family.

"We know that there is a difficult journey to go," they wrote, as reported by regional media outlets.

"But our faith keeps us optimistic. We remain thankful for the prayers and the support from people all over the world."

Previously, the governor said the serviceman had responded to a nurse with a positive gesture and was capable of wiggle his feet.

Law enforcement have formally accused the suspected shooter, an Afghan national named the suspect, with premeditated homicide and attempted murder.

Before coming to the US in two years ago, he was once a counterterrorism soldier in a paramilitary group that operated alongside US forces in Afghanistan.

The injured airman 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 urban centers.

Following the shooting, the former president said he desired an additional five hundred National Guard troops sent to the nation's capital.

The former presidential office has also referenced the attack as a justification for additional restrictive policies.

They have halted naturalization proceedings for foreign nationals from 19 countries that were part of a entry restriction implemented over the recent season, including the suspect's home country.