13 dead after shooting rampage at Fort Hood

[unhappycamper]

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in custody
Psychiatrist formerly worked at Walter Reed


13 dead after shooting rampage at Fort Hood
By April Castro and Devlin Barrett - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Nov 6, 2009 5:58:36 EST

FORT HOOD, Texas — Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

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's sprawling Fort Hood, post officials said. In the early chaos after the shootings, authorities thought 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.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss matters that were under investigation.


REst of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/army_shooting_hood_110509/

[aquart]

1. They CAN'T rule anything out. They don't know anything yet.

Kinda weird that they may be able to talk to him.