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Fort Hood shootings: Seven dead at army post outside Killeen, Texas

Posted by Fahad Zuberi on 11/05/09 • Categorized as Crime, North America

At least seven people were killed and several others injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base outside Killeen, Texas on Thursday afternoon.

Local television station KXXV reported, “We’ve learned an incident has taken place at the sports dome, now known as the soldier readiness area. Temple ISD Schools Have Been locked down as part of this incident. The district’s spokeswoman tells News Channel 25 the district is on soft lockdown.”

People in and around Fort Hood were worried and shared their concerns on Twitter.

  1. Rico Rossi
    RicoRossi (Fort Hood, Texas) if your OFFPOST right now dont come to base, multiple shootings, several casualties, possible terrorist suspects… FT HOOD TX 05 Nov 2009 from web
  2. Kerron Deon Charles
    Norrek4040 (Killeen, Texas) FORT HOOD IS LOCKED DOWN, 7 DEAD 12-15 WOUNDED! THEY DONT KNOW WHO’S DOING IT, BE SAFE PEOPLE! 05 Nov 2009 from MySpace
  3. Angel McDaniel
    aneeia26 (Killeen, Texas) Wow. I do not know what to say, but thank you Jesus, I had left Fort Hood an hour before the shootings. 05 Nov 2009 from web
  4. Tina evans
    Jus_Shuga (undisclosed location) Over here at wrk lockdown too!!! Forthood is crazy right now 05 Nov 2009 from txt
  5. Andrea
    music4life00 (undisclosed location) That’s what happens when yu live in a military town :( so sad 7 dead 05 Nov 2009 from UberTwitter
  6. Rico Rossi
    RicoRossi (Fort Hood, Texas) emergency sirens going off, HALO evacs, lockdowns, there is not 1 person walking thru the streets of FT HOOD 05 Nov 2009 from web
  7. Rebekah Hood
    RebekahReports (Texas) Police have shot a male suspect in Army uniform with Major rank. He has run in to another building on Fort Hood. 05 Nov 2009 from TweetDeck

 Other Twitter users  are praying for the terror to end in Fort Hood.

  1. Niki C
    nikimoo3 (location undisclosed) Pray for Fort Hood. Justin’s ok but idk about his friends 05 Nov 2009 from txt
  2. Laura Sergi
    LauraSergi (Connecticut) Prayers go out to the families and the people at Fort Hood 05 Nov 2009 from web
  3. RobertLewisEvans
    RobertEvans007 (undisclosed location) Please pray safety and protection for the soldiers and families at Fort Hood! 05 Nov 2009 from txt

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  • reasonablerobinson
    I think this was a very specific individual problem rather than some massive Islamist plot. The perpetrator was clearly in a very unstable psychological head space due to his perception of his treatment by colleagues and his anxisty about the Iraq posting. This should have been picked up sooner by the military I reckon. He wsa clearly on the verge of doing something crazy for a while. It might be a cultural thing though that his attitude was explained as 'cowardly' and that he need to strighten himself out or something.
  • ckanal
    Could be. Certainly not a lot of evidence to believe it was part of a larger plot at the time being. From everything released in the news so far, seems an isolated incident based on a specific individual.
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