For the Soldiers at Fort Hood
By Bronwyn's Harbor on November 5, 2009 at 5:55 PM in Current Affairs
Our prayers and grief. [Update: This post will serve solely as a news update, as needed. Go to Larry's post for comments.]
22:45 Update: Gunman is alive and stable in hospital. Female police officer wasn’t killed and is stable.
20:32 Update via Houston Chronicle:
CBS News, quoting an anonymous source, reported that Hasan was a licensed psychiatrist in Bethesda, Md. and drug and rehab specialist who got his Virginia psychiatry license in 2005. [Photo caption: An undated photo obtained from www.cstsonline.org shows the gunman, Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, a mental health professional killed after opening fire.]
ABC News is reporting that 12 are dead and 31 wounded.
Suspected Gunman Is Identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan — Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting spree at a Texas military base by what officials believe was possibly carried out by an Army officer.
Updates: Photo of George Stratton who was shot in the shoulder and was five feet from the shooter. A police officer was shot and killed by one of the shooters who he had shot. The A.P. offers live video coverage. There’s a televised briefing at 6:30 p.m, Fox News reported (postponed). Bret Baier says that Major Hasan was a “mental health professional.” (Now Fox says Maj. Hasan had received a poor performance evaluation.) Via MSNBC:
NBC News’ Pete Williams reported that U.S. officials identified the gunman as Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who had been promoted to major in May. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, said military officials told her that the gunman, who was 39 or 40, was about to be deployed to Iraq and was “upset about it.”
And, the Houston Chronicle has up-to-date reporting: “12 killed in shooting at Fort Hood.” Check the Chronicle’s home page for all related stories.
Please share any news you may have heard, and thoughts you have in Larry’s post.
This is terribly shocking news and I’m dumbfounded.
Update: Check out more news stories via Memeorandum.com, which has listed all the major MSM sources as well as blog reactions.
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