Shootings on FT Hood 2 Suspects reported 1 in custody 1 surrounded 1 on the loose

[nastyleg]

HOUSTON (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed and 12 wounded in a shooting at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, local media reported.

One gunman was in custody and another was on the loose, local media reported.

One station said there was a third shooter involved.

The attack happened at the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood, according to the FOX 4 television station.

The base is currently in lockdown mode, according to Fort Hood's website.

Fort Hood is halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 miles from each city, in Texas.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/us_nm/us_texas_shooting





DEVELOPING: A mass shooting at Ft. Hood military base in Texas has left at least 7 dead and 12 wounded, officials told Fox News.

There were two shooters in the Army base massacre in Killeen, the New York Post reported. One suspect was in custody and the other was on the loose, Fox News confirmed.

The attack apparently happened at the base's Soldier Readiness Center. Army officials didn't know whether the victims were civilians or military personnel.

The men were reportedly dressed in Army fatigues, but military officials couldn't confirm that they were Army personnel.

The base and area schools were on lockdown after the mass shooting, and all those on the Army base were asked to gather for a head count.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572305,00.html


A shooting rampage Thursday afternoon at the Army's Fort Hood in Texas killed 11 and wounded 31 before the gunman was killed and two suspects taken into custody.

All three of the people believed to have carried out the shooting were soldiers, Lt. General Bob Cone told reporters Thursday evening, though the motive remains unclear.

AP cites an unnamed source saying the gunman was Major Malik Nadal Hasan, though authorities have not publicly identified him.

Cone said witnesses reported seeing more than one shooter, but that couldn't be confirmed. The primary shooter used two handguns, he said.

The shooting took place 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the post's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers undergo medical screening before being deployed or after returning from overseas.

"We have a terrible, tragic situation here," said Cone. "Soldiers, family members and the civilians that work here are absolutely devastated."

Cone said the injuries "vary significantly" among the victims wounded in the shooting. The victims include one civilian police officer.

George Stratton's son George Stratton III was five feet away from the shooter at the Soldier Readiness Center and suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder.

"I talked to him right before surgery. He said, 'Dad, I'm getting ready to go into surgery ... I love you,'" George Stratton told FoxNews.com.

It was the second time the 18-year-old from Idaho called his father after the shooting. The first time was a voice mail he left while in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

"Dad, I've just been shot and going to be OK. I'm in an ambulance," he said in the message.

President Obama called the shooting a "horrific outburst of violence" on members of the nation's armed forces. "It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on American soil."

He said he doesn't yet know all the details but promised the government would get "answers to every single question."
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Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said the shooting was a terrible tragedy for all of the military families affected.

The base and area schools were on lockdown after the mass shooting, and all those on the Army post were asked to gather for a head count.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572305,00.html

[nastyleg]

7 dead and at least 20 wounded. It is unclear if the shooters are civilian or military.
I will be updating this as it happens, Rep(R) John Carter , he is FT Hoods representative, is live with FOX NEWS talking to them. All this was taking place while a graduation is taking place.

[nastyleg]

2 shooters started in the processing center. 1 was caught there and 1 got away. another set of shots fired at the base theater. Up to 30 wounded according to Rep(R) Kay Hutchinson. The shootings started at 1330 local time.

[Stark]

fuckin unreal

[nastyleg]

12 dead and 31 wounded, FBI believes it is a "lone Wolf" scenario where individuals motivated by an overall goal by a group but have no connection to them.


the shooting was done with 2 handguns by the dead soldier

[nastyleg]

LT GEN Bob Cone "the shooters were US soldiers....1 soldier was shot and killed on site 2 other apprehended
Lock down will continue until threat is confirmed over."


News not yet released name of shooter but it is an officer who carried out the shooting

[scoutsout80]

dead gunman was MAJ Malik Hasan, a medical corps doctor. Fuck me.

[nastyleg]

I updated the Fox news story at the top of the page

[nastyleg]

The Major was a mental health professional as well.....

[ghost]

Rest in peace.

Hopefully they catch this last guy soon.

[nastyleg]

from what I am hearing the third guy maybe a bad info. Right now Fox has a COL Terry Lee (ret) who worked with the killer. The major is a convert to islam who openly talked about violent acts against American's and that the little rock recruiting center was a good thing. He was very verbal about his support to terrorists. He was transferred to FT Hood from Walter Reed. The major was sort of a loner. The major was trying to avoid a deployment to overseas.



My opinion is this. When he decided to convert to islam he was recruited by a cell. Groomed to kill Americans he acted on his handlers wishes.

[joedan]

I believe you are right on target Leg. These people are patient if nothing else. There's no telling how many years it took them to flip someone and I wouldn't be surprised to find there's more of them waiting to awaken.

[Toki]

He was caught spouting anti-American sentiments in front of his COs but they never took any action.

RIP to those who were killed by these animals. I'm very sadden by this but maybe this will wake up some government officials with their head up their ass.

[Reactor-Axe-Man]

The guy's a psychiatrist. According to the guy's OBR, he spent his internship and residency at Walter Reed hospital. Contra the fucking media going off about PTSD, he's never seen combat, and never been deployed.

Also, as bullshit as it sounds, imagine the shitstorm his peers and his superiors thought they would face if they acted on his outbursts. The 'Narrative' would be that they were prejudiced against him because he was Muslim. The fact that his thinking was clearly not in line with Military Service, which requires an oath to support and defend the Constitution, would not be touched upon in the media or in the government, and his superiors likely understood this. Until we as a nation have the courage to call a murderous death cult what it is and take seriously its calls for our destruction, we will continue to get hit like this.

[ghost]

The guy's a psychiatrist. According to the guy's OBR, he spent his internship and residency at Walter Reed hospital. Contra the fucking media going off about PTSD, he's never seen combat, and never been deployed.

Also, as bullshit as it sounds, imagine the shitstorm his peers and his superiors thought they would face if they acted on his outbursts. The 'Narrative' would be that they were prejudiced against him because he was Muslim. The fact that his thinking was clearly not in line with Military Service, which requires an oath to support and defend the Constitution, would not be touched upon in the media or in the government, and his superiors likely understood this. Until we as a nation have the courage to call a murderous death cult what it is and take seriously its calls for our destruction, we will continue to get hit like this.


Spot on.

As I have said before, Political Correctness will always be the achilles heel of the Western world.

[eagle6]

if can happen there it could happen anywhere.we need to pay attention to our surroundings.

[nastyleg]

FORT HOOD, Texas – An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.

The gunman, first said to have been killed, was wounded but alive and in stable condition under military guard, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood. "I would say his death is not imminent," Cone said. Col. Ben Danner said the suspect was shot four times and was in critical condition.

The man was identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old from Virginia.

President Barack Obama called the shooting at the Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening, "a horrific outburst of violence."

"It's difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas," the commander in chief said. "It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil."

There was no official word on motive. Hasan had transferred to Fort Hood in July from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he received a poor performance evaluation, according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said generals at Fort Hood told her that Hasan was about to deploy overseas. Retired Col. Terry Lee, who said he had worked with Hasan, told Fox News he was being sent to Afghanistan.

Lee said Hasan had hoped Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq and got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars.

Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Md., said he spoke often with Hasan about how Hasan wanted to find a wife. Hasan was a lifelong Muslim and attended prayers regularly, often in his Army uniform, Khan said.

The shooter used two pistols, one of them semiautomatic. Neither were military-issued, Danner said.

Video from the scene showed police patrolling the area with handguns and rifles, ducking behind buildings for cover. Sirens could be heard wailing while a woman's voice on a public-address system urged people to take cover.

"I was confused and just shocked," said Spc. Jerry Richard, 27, who works at the center but was not on duty during the shooting. "Overseas you are ready for it. But here you can't even defend yourself."

Soldiers at Fort Hood don't carry weapons unless they are doing training exercises.

The Rev. Greg Schannep was about to head into a graduation ceremony when a man in uniform approached him, warning him that someone had opened fire. Schannep heard three volleys of gunfire and saw people running.

"There was a burst of shots and more bursts of shots and people running everywhere," said Schannep, who works for local Congressman John Carter.

The uniformed man who had warned him ran to the theater. Schannep said he could see the man's back was bloodied from a wound. The man survived, was treated and will be fine, Schannep said.

Cone said initially three people were held, and all have been interviewed. Authorities believe, however, that there was a single shooter.

The Soldier Readiness Center holds hundreds of people and is one of the most populated parts of the base, said Steve Moore, a spokesman for III Corps at Fort Hood. Nearby there are barracks and a food center where there are fast food chains.

The wounded were dispersed among hospitals in central Texas, Cone said. Their identities, and the identities of the dead, were not immediately released.

Amber Bahr, 19, was shot in the stomach but was in stable condition, said her mother, Lisa Pfund of Random Lake, Wis.

"We know nothing, just that she was shot in the belly," Pfund told The Associated Press. She couldn't provide more details and only spoke with emergency personnel.

Hasan, whose family said he was born in suburban Washington, is single with no children. He graduated from Virginia Tech, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001 and was at Walter Reed for six years for his internship, residency and a fellowship.

"We are shocked and saddened by the terrible events at Fort Hood today," his cousin, Nadar Hasan, said in a statement issued on behalf of their family. "We send the families of the victims our most heartfelt sympathies."

The attack happened just down the road from one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. On Oct. 16, 1991, George Hennard smashed his pickup truck through a Luby's Cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and fired on the lunchtime crowd with a high-powered pistol, killing 22 people and wounding at least 20 others.

No other shooting at a military base in the U.S. has been anywhere near as deadly as Thursday's. In 1993, a gunman at Fort Knox shot five civilian co-workers, killing three, and then fatally shot himself.

Around the country, some bases stepped up security precautions, but no others were locked down.

Covering 339 square miles, Fort Hood is the largest active duty armored post in the United States. Home to about 52,000 troops as of earlier this year, it is located halfway between Austin and Waco.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting

[acf6]

RIP to all our dead soldiers!!! Prayers to those wounded and hoping for a quick recovery!! Prayers to the families of the dead!! Kudos to the Female Police Officer who approached and took out the threat!!! I am just beside myself, can not believe someone can do this to his fellow soldiers!! I HOPE HE ROTS IN FUCKING HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jnv255]

Spot on.

As I have said before, Political Correctness will always be the achilles heel of the Western world.

I agree 100%

[GTFPDQ]

Although I would have preferred it if this had not happened, I am very interested in finding out some more details about this massacre.

Psychiatrists and Psychologists are a strange breed, they have a keen interest in one another. Given that, some one knew that this man mas unstable and capable of some form of violent outburst.

So many dead and wounded, Fort Hood will take a long time to get over this.

RIP. Speedy recovery to the wounded.

So very sad.

[nastyleg]

Details emerge about Fort Hood suspect background
(November 6th, 2009 @ 8:52am)

By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.

There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Most of all, his motive.

For six years before reporting for duty at Fort Hood, Texas, in July, the 39-year-old Army major worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center pursuing his career in psychiatry, as an intern, a resident and, last year, a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001.

While an intern at Walter Reed, Hasan had some "difficulties" that required counseling and extra supervision, said Dr. Thomas Grieger, who was the training director at the time.

Grieger said privacy laws prevented him from going into details but noted that the problems had to do with Hasan's interactions with patients. He recalled Hasan as a "mostly very quiet" person who never spoke ill of the military or his country.

"He swore an oath of loyalty to the military," Grieger said. "I didn't hear anything contrary to those oaths."

But, more recently, federal agents grew suspicious.

At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.

They had not determined for certain whether Hasan is the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case.

Federal authorities seized Hasan's computer Friday during a search of his apartment in Killeen, Texas, said a U.S. military official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Hasan's aunt, Noel Hasan of Falls Church, Va., said he had been harassed about being a Muslim in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and he wanted out of the Army.

"Some people can take it and some people cannot," she said. "He had listened to all of that and he wanted out of the military."

She said he had sought a discharge from the military for several years, and even offered to repay the cost of his medical training.

A military official told The Associated Press that Hasan was in the preparation stage of deployment, which can take months. The official said Hasan had indicated he didn't want to go to Iraq but was willing to serve in Afghanistan. The official did not have authorization to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A second military official said Hasan's family has Palestinian roots. There have been reports that he was harassed for his Muslim religion, but the official says there is no indication Hasan filed a complaint within the military about that.

Terrorism task force agents plan to interview several of Hasan's relatives Friday, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the case.

Noel Hasan said her nephew "did not make many friends" and would say "they military was his life."

A cousin, Nader Hasan, told The New York Times that after counseling soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder, Hasan knew war firsthand.

"He was mortified by the idea of having to deploy," Nader Hasan said. "He had people telling him on a daily basis the horrors they saw over there."

Federal law-enforcement agents ordered an evacuation of the apartment complex where Hasan lived in Killeen, Texas, Thursday night and conducted a search of his home, said Hilary Shine, director of public information for the city. She didn't say what was found during the search.

Officials said earlier that federal search warrants were being drawn up to authorize the seizure of his computer.

Retired Army Col. Terry Lee, who said he worked with Hasan, told Fox News that Hasan had hoped President Barack Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Lee said Hasan got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars, and had tried hard to prevent his pending deployment.

Col. Kimberly Kesling, deputy commander of clinical services at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, said she had known Hasan.

"You wouldn't think that someone who works in your facility and provided excellent care for his patients, which he did, could do something like this," Kesling said. She praised his work ethic, saying, "In my personal interactions, there was never any indication he would do something like this." Kesling described him as "a quiet man who wouldn't seek the limelight" and said she was 'shocked' when she heard that he was the man suspected of carrying out the shootings.

Hasan attended prayers regularly when he lived outside Washington, often in his Army uniform, said Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Md. He said Hasan was a lifelong Muslim.

"I got the impression that he was a committed soldier," Khan said. He spoke often with Hasan about Hasan's desire for a wife.

On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.

"I don't know why he listed Palestinian," Khan said, "He was not born in Palestine."

Nothing stood out about Hasan as radical or extremist, Khan said.

"We hardly ever got to discussing politics," Khan said. "Mostly we were discussing religious matters, nothing too controversial, nothing like an extremist."

Hasan earned his rank of major in April 2008, according to a July 2008 Army Times article.

He served eight years as an enlisted soldier. Military records show he also served in the ROTC as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry there in 1997.

But college officials said Friday that Hasan graduated with honors in biochemistry in 1995 and there was no record of him serving in any ROTC program.

He previously had attended Barstow Community College in Barstow, Calif., and Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Va., according to Virginia Tech records

http://www.ktar.com/?nid=509&sid=1228844

[sparkie]

Wasn't his fault, The Koran made him do it.

[ghost]

So has anyone else noticed that Obama has yet to make an aired response to this attack?

[nastyleg]

He made a public announcement the same day that they murders took place. He expressed his condolences to the families. Sorry if I missed posting it. Obama was kept upto date on the murders and what was going on.

[wardog99s]

the news is reporting he is still alive....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573029,00.html

[ghost]

the news is reporting he is still alive....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573029,00.html


Yeah. As far as I know, he's still alive.

[nastyleg]

he is off ventalater and in stable condition.......i wish he would just die