Update: West Virginia National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe ‘Slowly Healing’ After D.C. Shooting
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced on Friday that Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe is “slowly healing” after being ambushed and shot last week in Washington, D.C.
Wolfe was patrolling alongside Spec. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, when a gunman opened fire on them.
Beckstrom succumbed to her injuries the following day, on Thanksgiving.
Wolfe has been recovering in the hospital.
“His parents report that his head wound is slowly healing and that he’s beginning to ‘look more like himself,’” Morrisey said in a statement on Friday.
CBS News reports, “The governor said the family expects Wolfe, 24, to be in acute care for another two to three weeks, but has been ‘optimistic about his progress.’”
The alleged shooter, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is expected to survive his own injuries.
While Lakanwal will likely survive for now, Attorney General Pam Bondi has vowed that her prosecutors will do everything in their power to make sure he is given the death penalty.
Resettled in the U.S. in September 2021 under Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), a program that cost taxpayers over $14 billion, Lakanwal had worked with the CIA and Afghan forces in Kandahar before being granted asylum in April. He drove from his residence in Bellingham, Washington, to carry out the targeted attack.
President Trump has already responded by pausing migration from high-risk countries and vowing to end such programs, calling OAW a disaster funded by hardworking Americans. As author and political commentator Mike Cernovich put it, this is yet another example of taxpayers footing the bill for their own peril.
President Donald Trump has not ruled out deporting the family of Lakanwal, which includes at least a brother, wife, and his five children.
As Gateway Pundit previously reported, the shooter’s brother served as a platoon leader in the same elite CIA-backed “Zero Unit” as his murderous sibling. He also lives in the United States, but has not been publicly identified at this time.
The FBI is investigating the motive, but officials have not yet classified it as terrorism, despite the suspect’s background and the targeted nature of the attack.
President Trump, on the other hand, wasted no time blasting the incident as a “terrorist attack” and pinning the blame squarely on Biden’s failed immigration policies.
In a late-night Thanksgiving post on Truth Social, Trump announced Beckstrom’s death and Wolfe’s critical status, vowing to “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries” like Afghanistan.
Trump additionally promised to end federal benefits for noncitizens, denaturalize threats, and deport those “non-compatible with Western Civilization.”
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