{"id":78424,"date":"2025-12-02T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78424\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:23:33","slug":"west-virginia-governor-gives-update-on-wounded-national-guardsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78424\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Governor gives update on wounded National Guardsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) \u2014 The governor of West Virginia said Monday there have been some positive signs as one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot in an \u201cambush-style\u201d attack tries to recover in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/national-guard-shooting-timeline-washington-dc-sarah-beckstrom-dies-andrew-wolfe-critical-west-virginia-guardsmen-ambush-attack-violence-rahmanullah-lakanwal-afghanistan-president-trump-nation-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TIMELINE: How the National Guard shooting in DC unfolded and what happens now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/washington-dc-national-guard-shooting-sarah-beckstrom-andrew-wolfe-memorial-west-virginia-rahmanullah-lakanwal-afghan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sarah Beckstrom<\/a>, 20, of Summerville, died on Thanksgiving Day after she and 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/nation-world\/national-guard-member-attacked-in-dc-remains-in-serious-condition-governor-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andy Wolfe <\/a>of Martinsburg were shot Wednesday afternoon while on patrol outside the entrance to the Farragut West Metro station at 17th &amp; I Street in Northwest Washington.<\/p>\n<p>At a Monday press conference, West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said that although Wolfe was in \u201cserious condition,\u201d there were some positive signs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told that Andrew was asked if he could hear the nurse who asked the question, to give a thumbs up,\u201d Morrisey said.  \u201cAnd he did respond.  We were told that he also wiggled his toes, so we take that as a positive sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morrisey said Wolfe\u2019s mother, Melody, is asking everyone to pray for her son.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect in the shooting,<a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/washington-dc-national-guard-shooting-rahmanullah-lakanwal-first-degree-murder-fallen-guard-member-sarah-beckstrom-critically-injured-dead-west-virginia-shot-andrew-wolfe-investigation-afghan-national-president-trump-federal-crime-targeted-attack-violent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Rahmanullah Lakanwal<\/a>, was shot while allegedly committing the attack, but is expected to survive.  As of Monday, he had still not appeared in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for DC emailed 7News Monday, writing, \u201cas soon as Lakanwal is medically able to appear in court, he will be presented.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) \u2014 The governor of West Virginia said Monday there have been some positive signs as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-78424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}