Texas shootings

[K.Snyder]

I'm going to put this in crimes and trials for obvious reasons!

I have no television with sound so does anyone know if these shootings have ceased?

Would it be too optimistic to hope this ungodly act is resolved without anymore killed or wounded?

Anyone know what's going on?

[Mustang]

Swat teams were just called in to surround the building.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33678801...me_and_courts/

[spot]

Originally Posted by K.Snyder

Anyone know what's going on?

Fundamentalist Islamic Middle Easterners have invaded the US Homeland?

[K.Snyder]

Originally Posted by spot

Fundamentalist Islamic Middle Easterners have invaded the US Homeland?

From Mustangs article it appears as though these shooters were "American". Whether they're "Fundamentalist Islamic Middle Easterners" is unclear.

I had no idea this story was hours old, I was told it happened minutes ago.

[Mustang]

updated 7 minutes ago
At least one U.S. soldier opened fire Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, killing at least 11 people and wounding 31 others, military officials said.


Army: 12 dead, 31 wounded at Fort Hood - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

[Zapata]

Update just now said "12 dead, 31 injured." One gunman was shot & killed, 2 others in custody.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Zapata

Update just now said "12 dead, 31 injured." One gunman was shot & killed, 2 others in custody.

12 of the 31 injured are critical and they expect the death toll to rise.

This started at 1:30CT.

The FBI is helping in the investigation.

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By APRIL CASTRO and DEVLIN BARRETT=

^Associated Press Writers=
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and apprehended two other soldiers suspected in what appears to be the worst mass shooting at a U.S. military base.
The shooting began around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said at a news conference. He said all the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening.
``It's a terrible tragedy. It's stunning,'' Cone said.
A law enforcement official identified the shooting suspect as Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan. The official said Hasan, believed to be in his late 30s, was killed after opening fire at the base. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
The official says investigators are trying to determine if Hasan was his birth name, or if he changed his name and converted to Islam at some point in his life.
Cone said the soldier used two handguns in the attack. It was not clear if the gunman had stopped to reload.
A graduation ceremony for soldiers who finished college courses while deployed was going on in an auditorium at the Readiness Center at the time of the shooting, said Sgt. Rebekah Lampam, a Fort Hood spokeswoman.
Greg Schanepp, U.S. Rep. John Carter's regional director in Texas, was representing Carter at the graduation, said John Stone, a spokesman for Carter, whose district includes the Army post.
Schanepp was at the ceremony when a soldier who had been shot in the back came running toward him and alerted him of the shooting, Stone said. The soldier told Schanepp not to go in the direction of the shooter, he said. Stone said he believes Schanepp was in the theater.
The base was locked down after the shootings. The wounded were dispersed among hospitals in central Texas, Cone said.
The shootings on the Texas military base stirred memories of other recent mass shootings in the United States, including 13 dead at a New York immigrant center in March, 10 killed during a gunman's rampage across Alabama in March and 32 killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history at Virginia Tech in 2007.
Around the country, some bases stepped up security precautions, but no others were locked down.
``The bottom line for us is that we are increasing security at our gates because the threat hasn't yet been defined, and we're reminding our Marines to be vigilant in their areas of responsibility,'' said Capt. Rob Dolan, public affairs officer for the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz.
In Washington, President Barack Obama called the shooting ``a horrific outburst of violence.'' He said it's a tragedy to lose a soldier overseas and even more horrifying when they come under fire at an Army base on American soil.
``We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident,'' the commander in chief said. ``We are going to stay on this.''
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, the sprawling base is located halfway between Austin and Waco.
About a mile from Fort Hood's east gate, Cynthia Thomas, director of Under the Hood Cafe, a local coffee shop and nonprofit military support center, has been calling soldiers and friends on the post to make sure they're OK.
``It's chaotic,'' Thomas said, as a SWAT team just drove by. ``They're just saying that they're under attack they don't know what's going on. ... The phones are jammed. Everybody is calling family members and friends. Soldiers are running around with M-16s.''
Fort Hood officially opened on Sept. 18, 1942, and was named in honor of Gen. John Bell Hood. It has been continuously used for armored training and is charged with maintaining readiness for combat missions.
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AP National Security Writer Anne Gearan and Associated Press writers Suzanne Gamboa, Lolita C. Baldor and Devlin Barrett in Washington, D.C., and Associated Press Writer Jay Root in Fort Worth, Associated Press Writers Linda Stewart Ball, Anabelle Garay and Andre Coe in Dallas contributed to this report.

[Kathy Ellen]

Thanks for posting this Kev.....I'm just listening to it now

What a tragedy

[dubs]

It's terrible. Those soldiers knew of the risks of being deployed overseas, but for that to happen on home ground is awful. I'm reading on Sky news, that Ft Hood is also a centre for traumatised soldiers coming home, maybe they'll take a long hard look at that in light of events.