Many questions follow Fort Hood shooting rampage

[unhappycamper]

Randy Parten attends a prayer service at Memorial Baptist Church in Killeen, Texas, for the soldiers at Fort Hood who were killed or injured in a shooting at the Army base on Thursday.


Many questions follow Fort Hood shooting rampage
By The Associated Press
Stars and Stripes online edition, Thursday, November 5, 2009

FORT HOOD, Texas — Military officials are starting to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to allegedly turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas.

Post spokesman Tyler Broadway said early Friday that the toll now stands at 13 dead and 30 wounded.

The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times during the shootings at the Army post, officials said. In the early chaos after the shootings, authorities believed they had killed him, only to discover later that he had survived.

In Washington, a senior U.S. official said authorities at Fort Hood initially thought one of the victims who had been shot and killed was the shooter. The mistake resulted in a delay of several hours in identifying Hasan as the alleged assailant.

Authorities have not ruled out that Hasan was acting on behalf of some unidentified radical group, the official said. He would not say whether any evidence had come to light to support that theory.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65900