The New Media Journal | Police Raid Ft. Hood Suspect's Home as 13th Victim Dies

The New Media Journal | Police Raid Ft. Hood Suspect's Home as 13th Victim Dies: "An Army psychiatrist about to be deployed to a combat zone overseas shouted a religious slogan in Arabic before fatally shooting 13 people — including 12 soldiers — and injuring 28 others at this sprawling Central Texas military post on Thursday.

Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander at Fort Hood, said on NBC's Today Show that witnesses heard Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shout 'Allahu Akbar!' before opening fire. The phrase means 'God is great!' in Arabic.

The death toll rose by one overnight when one of the wounded died. Today, Col. John Rossi said all the wounded were in stable condition, including the suspect and the policewoman who shot him, Sgt. Kimberly Munley.

“It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer,” said Cone, praising her for stopping the gunman despite already being wounded herself...

Hasan is accused of attacking his fellow soldiers about 1:30pm at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where troops waited to see doctors as they prepared to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan — or return from combat. Armed with two pistols, he shot more than 40 people before military police and civilian police officers responded, officials said. He was wounded by a civilian policewoman, who was injured in the exchange, police said.

Rossi said Hasan, whose assault lasted about 10 minutes, was armed with weapons that were not issued by the military. “We’re looking into whether (the guns) were registered on the post, which was required,” Rossi said...

Hasan had been notified before the shooting that he was going to deploy to Afghanistan, he added.

Early Thursday, Hasan showed no signs of worry or stress when he stopped at 7-Eleven for his daily breakfast of hash browns, said Jeannie Strickland, the store's manager...However, surveillance video showed he was wearing religious attire rather than typical civilian or medical clothing. Strickland said that was unusual and she asked him about it, but he replied that he did that sometimes.

A few hours later, officials said, the Virginia native began his rampage on the post..."