The West Virginia national guard soldier who was wounded in the 26 November shooting that killed a colleague of his in Washington DC is “slowly healing”, according to West Virginia’s governor.

Andrew Wolfe, 24, was shot alongside fellow West Virginia national guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom, 20, while they patrolled the US capital as part of the Trump administration ’s push to deploy military members on to the city’s streets. Beckstrom died of her injuries the day after she was shot while Wolfe was hospitalized in critical condition.

On Friday, West Virginia’s governor, Patrick Morrisey – who deployed the state’s national guard to Washington DC – said in a post on his website that Wolfe had been recovering, if slowly, from being shot in the head. Pressure grows on ‘reckless’ Hegs

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