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Official: 1 dead, 14 injured in Fort Hood shooting
Associated Press By WILL WEISSERT

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, file photo, an entrance is shown to Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, Texas. Fort Hood says there's been a shooting at the Texas Army base and that there have been injuries, on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)

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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — One person was killed and 14 injured in a shooting Wednesday at Fort Hood, and officials at the base said the shooter is believed to be dead.

The details about the number of people hurt came from a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the information publicly.

Fort Hood said in a statement posted online that its Directorate of Emergency Services had an initial report that the shooter was dead, but that the report was unconfirmed. Additional details were not immediately available.

The Army said on its official Twitter feed that the base is still on lockdown, and that injured personnel were being treated at the post's Carl R. Darnall Medical Center and other local hospitals.

The Texas Army base was the scene of a mass shooting in 2009. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 wounded in what was the deadliest attack on a domestic military installation in history.

Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan was convicted and sentenced to death last year in the Nov. 5, 2009, attack on his fellow soldiers as they waited inside a crowded building at Fort Hood. Soldiers there were waiting to get vaccines and routine paperwork after recently returning from deployments or while preparing to go to Afghanistan and Iraq.

According to testimony during Hasan's trial last August, Hasan walked inside carrying two weapons and several loaded magazines, shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — Arabic for "God is great!" — and opened fire with a handgun.

Witnesses said he targeted soldiers as he walked through the building, leaving pools of blood, spent casings and dying soldiers on the floor. Photos of the scene were shown to the 13 officers on the military jury.

The rampage ended when Hasan was shot in the back by Fort Hood police officers outside the building, which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Hasan is now on death row at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

After that shooting, the military tightened security at bases nationwide. Those measures included issuing security personnel long-barreled weapons, adding an insider-attack scenario to their training, and strengthening ties to local law enforcement, according to Peter Daly, a vice admiral who retired from the Navy in 2011. The military also joined an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identifying terror threats.

In September, a former Navy man opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard, leaving at least 13 people dead, including the gunman. After that shooting, Hagel ordered the Pentagon to review security at all U.S. defense installations worldwide and examine the granting of security clearances that allow access to them.

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Associated Press reporters Lolita C. Baldor in Honolulu and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
 
I can't believe it happened again. Sad sad sad:-(
 
The gunman has a mental health problem. That is so sad! He need to stop copycat from evil Nidal Hasan. Nodal is sentenced to death.
 


Do you agree with this?

Its terrible of what happened at Ft. Hood. :(
 
I agree with you Jolie. The mental illness shouldn't have a gun or enlist to military. I believe it's lack of security in Fort Hood base. The gunman should be discharge from military due to mental illness.
 
PinkBlackZebra00 said:
I agree with you Jolie. The mental illness shouldn't have a gun or enlist to military. I believe it's lack of security in Fort Hood base. The gunman should be discharge from military due to mental illness.
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From what I know so far, the shooter wasn't mentally ill when he enlisted or bought the gun. He was still being evaluated by the doctors, and they said that he gave no evidence of being violent or suicidal. Also, he was never involved in combat, so combat PTSD is not likely.

We don't have all the facts yet.
 
Reba said:
From what I know so far, the shooter wasn't mentally ill when he enlisted or bought the gun. He was still being evaluated by the doctors, and they said that he gave no evidence of being violent or suicidal. Also, he was never involved in combat, so combat PTSD is not likely.

We don't have all the facts yet.
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Did you read my link from NPR? He had been treatment for his mental before open a fire shooting.

I knew Marine Combats is the most dangerous and risk of PTSD. I don't understand why is gunman done to Fort Hood. :dunno:
 
PinkBlackZebra00 said:
Did you read my link from NPR? He had been treatment for his mental before open a fire shooting.
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Yes. According to your link:

"He was seen just last month by a psychiatrist," Army Secretary John McHugh said this morning of the gunman, who was an Army soldier. "He was fully examined and as of this morning we had no indication [from] the record of that examination that there was any sign of likely violence either to himself or to others."

Update at 10 a.m. ET. "He Had A Clean Record":

The gunman "had a clean record" in the military and background checks of him "show no involvement with extremist organizations of any kind," Secretary of the Army John McHugh just said at the top of a previously scheduled Senate hearing. McHugh also told the lawmakers that the soldier had been prescribed multiple prescription drugs, including a sleep aid.

NPR's Bowman adds that Lopez served in Iraq in 2011 and that there is "no indication he was wounded in combat," but that the soldier had apparently "self-reported a traumatic brain injury."


Just like I posted. The NPR link says nothing about the shooter being diagnosed mentally ill or violent.


I knew Marine Combats is the most dangerous and risk of PTSD. I don't understand why is gunman done to Fort Hood. :dunno:
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The shooter was an Army soldier, not a Marine.
 
Reba said:
Yes. According to your link:

"He was seen just last month by a psychiatrist," Army Secretary John McHugh said this morning of the gunman, who was an Army soldier. "He was fully examined and as of this morning we had no indication [from] the record of that examination that there was any sign of likely violence either to himself or to others."

Update at 10 a.m. ET. "He Had A Clean Record":

The gunman "had a clean record" in the military and background checks of him "show no involvement with extremist organizations of any kind," Secretary of the Army John McHugh just said at the top of a previously scheduled Senate hearing. McHugh also told the lawmakers that the soldier had been prescribed multiple prescription drugs, including a sleep aid.

NPR's Bowman adds that Lopez served in Iraq in 2011 and that there is "no indication he was wounded in combat," but that the soldier had apparently "self-reported a traumatic brain injury."


Just like I posted. The NPR link says nothing about the shooter being diagnosed mentally ill or violent.



The shooter was an Army soldier, not a Marine.
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I know he is an Army solider. Let me find a link and post it here. This is my hometown's news. http://wane.com/news/crime/fort-hood-gunman-sought-mental-health-treatment/
 
Reba said:
Yes. According to your link:

"He was seen just last month by a psychiatrist," Army Secretary John McHugh said this morning of the gunman, who was an Army soldier. "He was fully examined and as of this morning we had no indication [from] the record of that examination that there was any sign of likely violence either to himself or to others."

Update at 10 a.m. ET. "He Had A Clean Record":

The gunman "had a clean record" in the military and background checks of him "show no involvement with extremist organizations of any kind," Secretary of the Army John McHugh just said at the top of a previously scheduled Senate hearing. McHugh also told the lawmakers that the soldier had been prescribed multiple prescription drugs, including a sleep aid.

NPR's Bowman adds that Lopez served in Iraq in 2011 and that there is "no indication he was wounded in combat," but that the soldier had apparently "self-reported a traumatic brain injury."


Just like I posted. The NPR link says nothing about the shooter being diagnosed mentally ill or violent.



The shooter was an Army soldier, not a Marine.
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It turn out that shooter was being diagnosed for mental illness and with all the mass shooting that been committed by a person a history of mental illness you would think that would had been a red flag.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
It turn out that shooter was being diagnosed for mental illness and with all the mass shooting that been committed by a person a history of mental illness you would think that would had been a red flag.
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:gpost: I agree with you. Well said.
 
PinkBlackZebra00 said:
I agree with you Jolie. The mental illness shouldn't have a gun or enlist to military. I believe it's lack of security in Fort Hood base. The gunman should be discharge from military due to mental illness.
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then probably over 40% of soldiers would have to be discharged for having recurring nightmares.
 
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