During his first court appearance, Naser Jason Abdo, 21, yelled "Nidal Hasan Ft. Hood 2009!" It was a defiant reference to the Army major and psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a rampage at the base in 2009.
Read More →Pfc. Nasser Jason Abdo faces federal charges after the FBI recovered guns and "bomb-making components, including gunpowder" in his hotel room near the base.
Read More →Lt. Gen. Donald Campbell Jr., Fort Hood's commander, also ordered a court-martial for a trial that's likely to begin in about a year. Hasan faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 specifications of attempted premeditated murder.
Read More →The two initially planned to attack Joint Base Lewis-McChord, but later changed targets. Since early June they were captured on audio and videotape discussing a violent assault on the Military Entrance Processing Station in Seattle.
Read More →A 14-month Senate investigation of the Fort Hood killings concluded that the Department of Defense and the FBI "collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it."
Read More →The shooting served the same purpose as 9/11, according to a statement from the group, to terrify "the Crusader West" and shake America off kilter.
Read More →Sgt. Mark Todd and Officer Kimberly Munley were the first to arrive at the chaotic scene, after Hasan opened fire in the soldier readiness center, eventually killing 13 people and wounding 32 others.
Read More →The Army psychiatrist's defense team led by Lt. Col. Kris R. Poppe asked for a continuance until Nov. 8 to allow time for processing of what he described only as "paperwork" recently submitted to Army officials.
Read More →Officer Kim Munley, one of two civilian officers who helped end the Fort Hood shooting spree, says she is unlikely to return to patrol duties.
Read More →Civilian officer Kimberly Munley is credited with applying lessons learned from the 2007 rampage at Virginia Tech to halt an active shooter at Fort Hood before he killed more victims, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
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