Texan police officer Kim Munley who shot Fort Hood gunman hailed as a heroine

[oberliner]

A Texas police officer who intervened to stop a shooting spree at America's biggest military base was hailed today as a heroine as she received treatment for the wounds received in a shoot-out with the gunman.

Major Nidal Hasan, an army psychiatrist due to be posted to Afghanistan, shot dead 13 people and wounded 30 others after opening fire with two handguns at Fort Hood yesterday afternoon.

But the death toll from the rampage could have been far worse had it not been for the actions of Sergeant Kimberly Munley, a civilian police officer stationed at the base who was the first on the scene as Major Hasan picked off his victims.

Sergeant Munley managed to hit Major Hasan four times but was herself hit by a bullet that passed through both her legs, according to witnesses.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6906278.ece

[TwilightGardener]

1. She is a hero, that's for sure.

[T Wolf]

2. Why are civilian cops on a military base? Is this something new? Growing up in

Virginia (Newport News/Hampton peninsula), surrounded by military bases, I never saw a city cop on base. Even though the bases were pretty open to non-military.

[Blue State Blues]

5. According to the press conference last night

base security is a combination of military police and civilian police.

[Lasher]

3. Imagine how many other casualties there might have been if this brave woman hadn't stepped up.

Yep, Munley's a hero in my book. I suppose she must have kept fighting after she was shot in the legs, since it was four of her bullets that put the asshole Hasan out of commission.

[oberliner]

8. Amen - the response was so quick

Talk about quick and appropriate action - and she got shot in the process!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Ft. Hood has no MPs? Has base security been contracted out?

[littlebit]

6. They have both.

Just like every other Army base in the country. A lot of the civilian police are ex military.

[rvablue]

7. K&R! n/t

[Bitwit1234]

9. In a lot of bases

they have both..I know from experience, I used to work on an Army Base. But on NCIS they show it.