DX

I would like to bring up a the Fort Hood shooting (I originally wanted to dedicate more that one post to this but I have yet to really have the time, even now I'm writing this in Math class between the jotting of notes). I recently found an article saying someone got video of it but was ordered to delete it.

Here's the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/15/texas.fort.hood.hearing/index.html?hpt=T2

Here are some articles from the days following the shooting:

* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6512329/Fort-Hood-shooting-13-killed-and-30-injured-at-US-Army-base.html

* http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/reports-of-mass-shooting-at-fort-hood/

* http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/reports-of-mass-shooting-at-fort-hood/
** With this article i would like to point out a few selections. What is in bold is what i would like to put some emphasis on.

#1: "Update | 4:37 p.m. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison told Fox 4 News in Texas that one shooter was in custody and “another is still at large.”
She also said she was told by authorities that there were as many as 30 wounded at “a processing center where soldiers are processed to go to Iraq or Afghanistan.”

“Our hearts go out,” she said. “These are soldiers who are getting ready to go out to Iraq or Afghanistan and their families were under stress already. This was just a terrible tragedy and we don’t even know the extent of it yet.”"

#2: "Update | 4:21 p.m. Speaking to CNN, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said that the gunmen were wearing military uniforms."

#3: Update | 4:15 p.m. CNN reports that two military sources say that the second gunman at Fort Hood is “cornered.”"

#4: "Original Post | 4:07 p.m. Seven people have been killed and twelve wounded in a mass shooting at the Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, according to Lt. Col. Nathan Banks, an Army spokesman. Lt. Col. Nathan Banks told my colleague David Stout that the shootings started at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time and that the base has been locked down. He added that one person is in custody but there is believed to be at least one more gunman still at large."

#5: "The Associated Press reports that the Web site of the base in central Texas has posted an alert that says, “Effective immediately Fort Hood is closed.” The Web site, which became unavailable soon after the shootings were reported, said that units at the base have been ordered to account for all personnel.

The site says: “This is not a Drill. It is an Emergency Situation.”

The A.P. adds that several television stations in Texas have been reporting on the incident at the base, which is located halfway between Austin and Waco.

Patrick Tolbert of the local ABC affiliate KXXV reports:

Fort Hood officials say one person is in custody but are asking people to stay away from windows. We’ve learned an incident has taken place at the sports dome, now known as the soldier readiness area.

We will bring you more information on this incident as soon as it is available.

Any readers in the area with information, in the form of eye-witness accounts, photographs or video are encouraged to send it to us, either by writing to pix@nyt.com or posting in the comment thread below."

#6: "Update | 4:48 p.m. Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, the base commander, is speaking to the media outside the base. He confirms that 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded. He also said that the shootings took place at a readiness facility, which is where soldiers go before deploying overseas. Gen. Cone said that the gunmen were Fort Hood soldiers and used handguns. Two soldiers have been detained as suspects in the shootings, in addition to the suspect who was killed.

Update | 4:39 p.m. CNN’s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr reports that 12 people have been killed and up to 30 wounded. One of the dead is said to have been one of the gunmen."
** With this one seems to contradict itself.. but it was an update so I'll give them leeway.

#7: "Update | 5:08 p.m. Christopher Haug, a spokesman at Fort Hood says that the gunman who was killed had two handguns. He confirms that 12 people are dead, including the gunman and that 31 have been wounded. The base remains locked down."


I have one question... What happened to these two suspects that were taken into custody? In the last article they actually have updates but then out of no where the only suspect is Nidal Hasan.

I'll write more when I get home... class let out.